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• 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,....
• macrotape: /mak'roh-tayp/ n. An industry-standard reel of tape, as opposed to a {microtape}.
  See also {round tape}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• 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....
• 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,....
• foo /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp.
  programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• 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...
• byte:: /bi:t/ [techspeak] n. A unit of memory or data equal to the amount used to represent one characte
  on modern architectures this is usually 8 bits, but may be 9 on 36-bit machines....
• drum: adj, n. Ancient techspeak term referring to slow, cylindrical magnetic media that were once state-of-the-art storage devices.
  Under BSD UNIX the disk partition used for swapping is still called `/dev/drum'...