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• digit: n. An employee of Digital Equipment Corporation.
  See also {VAX}, {VMS}, {PDP-10}, {{TOPS-10}}, {DEChead}, {double DECkers}, {field circus}....
• doorstop: n. Used to describe equipment that is non-functional and halfway expected to remain so, especially obsolete equipment kept around for political reasons or ostensibly as a backup.
  When we get another Wyse-50 in here, that ADM 3 will turn into a doorstop....
• gonkulator: /gon'kyoo-lay-tr/ [from the old "Hogan's Heroes" TV series] n.
  A pretentious piece of equipment that actually serves no useful purpose....
• gen: /jen/ n.,v. Short for {generate}, used frequently in both spoken and written contexts.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• digit n.,obs. An employee of Digital Equipment Corporation.
  See also VAX, VMS, PDP-10, TOPS-10, field circus....
• womb box: n. 1. [TMRC] Storage space for equipment.
  2. [proposed] A variety of hard-shell equipment case with heavy interior padding and/or shaped carrier cutouts in a foam-rubber matrix...
• DEC: n. Digital Equipment Corporation. Before the {killer micro} revolution of the late 1980s, hackerdom was closely symbiotic with DEC's pioneering timesharing machines.
  The first of the group of cultures described by this lexicon nucleated around the PDP-1 (see {TMRC}....
• foobar n. [very common] Another widely used metasyntactic variable
  ee foo for etymology. Prob originally propagated through DECsystem manuals by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1960s and early 1970...
• 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)....