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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>flap</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="flamer.html" title="flamer"/><link rel="next" href="flarp.html" title="flarp"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">flap</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flamer.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="flarp.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="flap"/><dt xmlns="" id="flap"><b>flap</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [obs.] To unload a DECtape (so it goes flap, flap,
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flap...). Old-time hackers at MIT tell of the days when the disk
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was device 0 and DEC microtapes were 1, 2,... and attempting to flap
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device 0 would instead start a motor banging inside a cabinet near the
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disk. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. By extension, to unload any magnetic tape. Modern cartridge
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tapes no longer actually flap, but the usage has remained. (The term could
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well be re-applied to DEC's TK50 cartridge tape drive, a spectacularly
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misengineered contraption which makes a loud flapping sound, almost like an
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old reel-type lawnmower, in one of its many tape-eating failure
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