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flap
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vt. 1. [obs.] To unload a DECtape (so it goes flap, flap, flap...). Old-time
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hackers at MIT tell of the days when the disk was device 0 and DEC
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microtapes were 1, 2,... and attempting to flap device 0 would instead start
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a motor banging inside a cabinet near the disk. 2. By extension, to unload
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any magnetic tape, even if it no longer actually had a flap.
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(The term could also be applied to DEC's TK50 cartridge tape drive,
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which was a spectacularly misengineered contraption making a loud flapping
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sound, almost like an old reel-type lawnmower, in one of its many
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tape-eating failure modes.
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