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• 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...
• pastie: /pay'stee/ n. An adhesive-backed label designed to be attached to a key on a keyboard to indicate some non-standard character which can be accessed through that key.
  Pasties are likely to be used in APL environments, where almost every key is associated with a special character....
• ANSI /an'see/ 1. n. [techspeak] The American National Standards Institute.
  ANSI, along with the International Organization for Standards (ISO), standardized the C programming language (see K&...
• macro /mak'roh/ n. [techspeak] A name (possibly followed by a formal arg list) that is equated to a text or symbolic expression to which it is to be expanded (possibly with the substitution of actual arguments) by a macro expander.
  This definition can be found in any technical dictionary...
• drunk mouse syndrome: (also `mouse on drugs') n. A malady exhibited by the mouse pointing device of some computers.
  The typical symptom is for the mouse cursor on the screen to move in random directions and not in sync with the motion of the actual mouse....
• punched card:: alt. `punch card' [techspeak] n.obs.
  The signature medium of computing's {Stone Age}, now obsolescent outside of some IBM shops....
• 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....
• pastie /pay'stee/ n. An adhesive-backed label designed to be attached to a key on a keyboard to indicate some non-standard character which can be accessed through that key.
  Pasties are likely to be used in APL environments, where almost every key is associated with a special character....
• drunk mouse syndrome n. (also `mouse on drugs') A malady exhibited by the mouse pointing device of some computers.
  The typical symptom is for the mouse cursor on the screen to move in random directions and not in sync with the motion of the actual mouse....