:amoeba: n. Humorous term for the Commodore Amiga personal computer.
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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... - slap on the side: n. (also called a {sidecar}, or abbreviated
`SOTS'.) A type of external expansion hardware marketed by
computer manufacturers (e.g.
Commodore for the Amiga 500/1000 series and IBM... - blitter: /blit'r/ n. A special-purpose chip or hardware system
built to perform {blit} operations,
esp. used for fast implementation of bit-mapped... - 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... - confuser: n. Common soundalike slang for `computer'.
Usually encountered in compounds such as `confuser... - Amiga n
A series of personal computer models originally
sold by Commodore,
based on 680x0 processors, custom support chips ... - 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... - 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...
