chiclet keyboard n.
A keyboard with a small, flat
rectangular or lozenge-shaped rubber or plastic keys that look like
pieces of chewing gum. (Chiclets is the brand name of a variety of
chewing gum that does in fact resemble the keys of chiclet
keyboards.) Used esp. to describe the original IBM PCjr
keyboard. Vendors unanimously liked these because they were cheap,
and a lot of early portable and laptop products got launched using
them. Customers rejected the idea with almost equal unanimity, and
chiclets are not often seen on anything larger than a digital watch
any more.
A keyboard with a small, flat
rectangular or lozenge-shaped rubber or plastic keys that look like
pieces of chewing gum. (Chiclets is the brand name of a variety of
chewing gum that does in fact resemble the keys of chiclet
keyboards.) Used esp. to describe the original IBM PCjr
keyboard. Vendors unanimously liked these because they were cheap,
and a lot of early portable and laptop products got launched using
them. Customers rejected the idea with almost equal unanimity, and
chiclets are not often seen on anything larger than a digital watch
any more.
Related:
- chiclet keyboard: n. A keyboard with a small, flat rectangular or
lozenge-shaped rubber or plastic keys that look like pieces of
chewing gum.
(Chiclets is the brand name of a variety of chewing gum that does in fact resemble the keys of chiclet keyboards.... - pace-cadet keyboard n.
A now-legendary device used on MIT
LISP machines, which inspired several still-current jargon terms
and influenced the design of EMACS.
It was equipped with no fewer than seven shift key... - bit-paired keyboard n.,obs.
(alt. `bit-shift
keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have
originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several
years on early computer equipment.
The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so the only way to generate the character codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage.... - bucky bits /buh'kee bits/ n.
1. obs. The bits produced by
the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and
400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set.
The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL and META keys, resulting in a 12-bit character se... - double bucky adj.
Using both the CTRL and META keys.
The command to burn all LEDs is double bucky F.... - ipple mouse n.
Common term for the pointing device used
on IBM ThinkPads and a few other laptop computers.
The device, which sits between the `g' and `h' keys on the keyboard, indeed resembles a rubber nipple intended to be tweaked by a forefinger.... - plokta /plok't*/ v.
[acronym: Press Lots Of Keys To
Abort] To press random keys in an attempt to get some response
from the system.
One might plokta when the abort procedure for a program is not known, or when trying to figure out if the system is just sluggish or really hung.... - meta bit: n. The top bit of an 8-bit character, which is on in
character values 128--255.
Also called {high bit}, {alt bit}, or {hobbit}.... - bug n.
An unwanted and unintended property of a program or
piece of hardware, esp.
one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
