chicken head n.
[Commodore] The Commodore Business
Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part (within
Commodore itself the logo was always called `chicken lips').
Rendered in ASCII as `C='. With the arguable exception of the
Amiga (see amoeba), Commodore's machines are notoriously
crocky little bitty boxes (see also PETSCII). Thus, this
usage may owe something to Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids
Dream of Electric Sheep?" (the basis for the movie "Blade
Runner"; the novel is now sold under that title), in which a
`chickenhead' is a mutant with below-average intelligence.
[Commodore] The Commodore Business
Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part (within
Commodore itself the logo was always called `chicken lips').
Rendered in ASCII as `C='. With the arguable exception of the
Amiga (see amoeba), Commodore's machines are notoriously
crocky little bitty boxes (see also PETSCII). Thus, this
usage may owe something to Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids
Dream of Electric Sheep?" (the basis for the movie "Blade
Runner"; the novel is now sold under that title), in which a
`chickenhead' is a mutant with below-average intelligence.
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