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• ice box n. [from ham radio slang] Any Asian-made commodity computer, esp.
  an 80x86-based machine built to IBM PC-compatible ISA or EISA-bus standards....
• clone: n. 1. An exact duplicate: "Our product is a clone of their product.
  Implies a legal reimplementation from documentation or by reverse-engineering....
• idecar: n. 1. Syn. {slap on the side}. Esp. used of add-ons for the late and unlamented IBM PCjr.
  2. The IBM PC compatibility box that could be bolted onto the side of an Amiga....
• all card: n. A PC/AT-size expansion card (these can be larger than IBM PC or XT cards because the AT case is bigger).
  See also {short card}. When IBM introduced the PS/2 model 30 (its last gasp at supporting the ISA) they made the case lower and many industry-standard tall cards wouldn't fi...
• killer poke: n. A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see {poke}) into a memory-mapped control registe
  used esp. of various fairly well-known tricks on {bitty box}es without hardware memory management (such as the IBM PC and Commodore PET) that can overload and trash analog electronics in the monitor....
• ilicon: n. Hardware, esp. ICs or microprocessor-based computer systems (compare {iron}).
  Contrasted with software. See also {sandbender}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• Big Red Switch: [IBM] n. The power switch on a computer, esp.
  he `Emergency Pull' switch on an IBM {mainframe} or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red....
• fear and loathing: [from Hunter S. Thompson] n. A state inspired by the prospect of dealing with certain real-world systems and standards that are totally {brain-damaged} but ubiquitous --- Intel 8086
  or {COBOL}, or {{EBCDIC}}, or any {IBM} machine except the Rios (a....
• clone n. 1. An exact duplicate: "Our product is a clone of their product.
  Implies a legal reimplementation from documentation or by reverse-engineering....