:chiclet keyboard: n. A keyboard with a small, flat rectangular or
lozenge-shaped rubber or plastic keys that look like pieces of
chewing gum. (Chiclets is the brand name of a variety of chewing
gum that does in fact resemble the keys of chiclet keyboards.)
Used esp. to describe the original IBM PCjr keyboard. Vendors
unanimously liked these because they were cheap, and a lot of early
portable and laptop products got launched using them. Customers
rejected the idea with almost equal unanimity, and chiclets are not
often seen on anything larger than a digital watch any more.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
lozenge-shaped rubber or plastic keys that look like pieces of
chewing gum. (Chiclets is the brand name of a variety of chewing
gum that does in fact resemble the keys of chiclet keyboards.)
Used esp. to describe the original IBM PCjr keyboard. Vendors
unanimously liked these because they were cheap, and a lot of early
portable and laptop products got launched using them. Customers
rejected the idea with almost equal unanimity, and chiclets are not
often seen on anything larger than a digital watch any more.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- chiclet keyboard n.
A keyboard with a small, flat
rectangular or lozenge-shaped rubber or plastic keys that look like
pieces of chewing gum.
(Chiclets is the brand name of a variety of chewing gum that does in fact resemble the keys of chiclet keyboards.... - pace-cadet keyboard n.
A now-legendary device used on MIT
LISP machines, which inspired several still-current jargon terms
and influenced the design of EMACS.
It was equipped with no fewer than seven shift key... - bit-paired keyboard n.,obs.
(alt. `bit-shift
keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have
originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several
years on early computer equipment.
The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so the only way to generate the character codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage.... - bucky bits /buh'kee bits/ n.
1. obs. The bits produced by
the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and
400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set.
The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL and META keys, resulting in a 12-bit character se... - meta bit: n. The top bit of an 8-bit character, which is on in
character values 128--255.
Also called {high bit}, {alt bit}, or {hobbit}.... - its on a keyboard: n. Small bumps on certain keycaps to keep
touch-typists registered (usually on the `5' of a numeric
keypad, and on the `F' and `J' of a {QWERTY} keyboard
but the Mac, perverse as usual, has them on the `D' and `K' keys).... - oid: [from `android'] suff. 1. Used as in mainstream English to
indicate a poor imitation, a counterfeit, or some otherwise
slightly bogus resemblance.
Hackers will happily use it with all sorts of non-Greco/Latin stem words that wouldn't keep company with it in mainstream English.... - ipple mouse n.
Common term for the pointing device used
on IBM ThinkPads and a few other laptop computers.
The device, which sits between the `g' and `h' keys on the keyboard, indeed resembles a rubber nipple intended to be tweaked by a forefinger.... - quadruple bucky: n., obs. 1. On an MIT {space-cadet keyboard},
use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and
super) while typing a character key.
2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in {raw mode}, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard....
