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• An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.
• Never let any mechanical device know you're in a hurry.
• Wake Up!: Sal Ammoniac
• A wind-up clock without a key.
• green machine n. A computer or peripheral device that has been designed and built to military specifications for field equipment (that i
  o withstand mechanical shock, extremes of temperature and humidity, and so forth)....
• green machine: n. A computer or peripheral device that has been designed and built to military specifications for field equipment (that i
  o withstand mechanical shock, extremes of temperature and humidity, and so forth)....
• punched card n.obs. [techspeak] (alt. `punch card') The signature medium of computing's Stone Age, now obsolescent outside of some IBM shops.
  The punched card actually predated computers considerably, originating in 1801 as a control device for mechanical looms....
• punched card:: alt. `punch card' [techspeak] n.obs.
  The signature medium of computing's {Stone Age}, now obsolescent outside of some IBM shops....
• kluge /klooj/ [from the German `klug', clever; poss.
  related to Polish `klucz' (a key, a hint, a main point)] 1....