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• hort card n. A half-length IBM XT expansion card or adapter that will fit in one of the two short slots located towards the right rear of a standard chassis (tucked behind the floppy disk drives).
  See also tall card....
• 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...
• 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...
• ventilator card: n. Syn. {lace card}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• lace card: n. obs. A {{punched card}} with all holes punched (also called a `whoopee card' or `ventilator card').
  Card readers tended to jam when they got to one of these, as the resulting card had too little structural strength to avoid buckling inside the mechanism....
• punched card:: alt. `punch card' [techspeak] n.obs.
  The signature medium of computing's {Stone Age}, now obsolescent outside of some IBM shops....
• card walloper: n. An EDP programmer who grinds out batch programs that do stupid things like print people's paychecks.
  Compare {code grinder}. See also {{punched card}}, {eighty-column mind}....
• yellow card n. See green card.
• lap on the side: n. (also called a {sidecar}, or abbreviated `SOTS'.
  ) A type of external expansion hardware marketed by computer manufacturers (e....