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• lap on the side n. (also called a sidecar, or abbreviated `SOTS'.
  ) A type of external expansion hardware marketed by computer manufacturers (e....
• 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....
• 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....
• hort card: n. A half-length IBM PC 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}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• 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....
• 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...
• amoeba: n. Humorous term for the Commodore Amiga personal computer. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• 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 boxes without hardware memory management (such as the IBM PC and Commodore PET) that can overload and trash analog electronics in the monitor....
• WAITS:: /wayts/ n. The mutant cousin of {{TOPS-10}} used on a handful of systems at {{SAIL}} up to 1990.
  There was never an `official' expansion of WAITS (the name itself having been arrived at by a rather sideways process), but it was frequently glossed as `West-coast Alternative to ITS'....