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• amoeba n. Humorous term for the Commodore Amiga personal computer.
• chicken head: [Commodore] n. The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part.
  Rendered in ASCII as `C='. With the arguable exception of the Amiga (see {amoeba}), Commodore's machines are notoriously crocky little {bitty box}es (see also {PETSCII})....
• lap on the side: n. (also called a {sidecar}, or abbreviated `SOTS'.
  ) A type of external expansion hardware marketed by computer manufacturers (e....
• blitter: /blit'r/ n. A special-purpose chip or hardware system built to perform {blit} operations, esp.
  used for fast implementation of bit-mapped graphics....
• crayola books: n. The {rainbow series} of National Computer Security Center (NCSC) computer security standards (see {Orange Book}).
  Usage: humorous and/or disparaging. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• confuser: n. Common soundalike slang for `computer'.
  Usually encountered in compounds such as `confuser room', `personal confuser', `confuser guru'....
• Amiga n A series of personal computer models originally sold by Commodore
  based on 680x0 processors, custom support chips and an operating system that combined some of the best features of Macintosh and Unix with compatibility with neither....
• PETSCII: /pet'skee/ [abbreviation of PET ASCII] n. The variation (many would say perversion) of the {{ASCII}} character set used by the Commodore Business Machines PET series of personal computers and the later Commodore C64
  C16, and C128 machines. The PETSCII set used left-arrow and up-arrow (as in old-style ASCII) instead of underscore and caret, placed the unshifted alphabet at positions 65--90, put the shifted alphabet at positions 193--218, and added graphics characters....
• Vulcan nerve pinch: n. [from the old "Star Trek" TV series via Commodore Amiga hackers] The keyboard combination that forces a soft-boot or jump to ROM monitor (on machines that support such a feature).
  On many micros this is Ctrl-Alt-Del; on Suns, L1-A...