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• macrotape /mak'roh-tayp/ n. An industry-standard reel of tape.
  Originally, as opposed to a DEC microtape; nowadays, as opposed to modern QIC and DDS tapes....
• ound tape: n. Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels.
  See {macrotape}, oppose {square tape}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• microtape: /mi:'kroh-tayp/ n. Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a {macrotape}.
  A DECtape is a small reel, about 4 inches in diameter, of magnetic tape about an inch wide....
• ound tape n. Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels.
  See macrotape, oppose square tape....
• flap: vt. 1. To unload a DECtape (so it goes flap, flap, flap.
  ..). Old-time hackers at MIT tell of the days when the disk was device 0 and {microtape}s were 1, 2,....
• quare tape: n. Mainframe magnetic tape cartridges for use with IBM 3480 or compatible tape drive
  or QIC tapes used on workstations and micros. The term comes from the square (actually rectangular) shape of the cartridge...
• flap vt. 1. [obs.] To unload a DECtape (so it goes flap, flap, flap.
  ..). Old-time hackers at MIT tell of the days when the disk was device 0 and DEC microtapes were 1, 2,....
• jolix: n. /joh'liks/ n.,adj. 386BSD, the freeware port of the BSD Net/2 release to the Intel i386 architecture by Bill Jolitz and friends.
  Used to differentiate from BSDI's port based on the same source tape, which is called BSD/386....
• all card: n. A PC/AT-size expansion card (these can be larger than IBM PC or XT cards because the AT case is bigger).
  See also {short card}. When IBM introduced the PS/2 model 30 (its last gasp at supporting the ISA) they made the case lower and many industry-standard tall cards wouldn't fi...