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• ice box n. [from ham radio slang] Any Asian-made commodity computer, esp.
  an 80x86-based machine built to IBM PC-compatible ISA or EISA-bus standards....
• clone n. 1. An exact duplicate: "Our product is a clone of their product.
  Implies a legal reimplementation from documentation or by reverse-engineering....
• clone: n. 1. An exact duplicate: "Our product is a clone of their product.
  Implies a legal reimplementation from documentation or by reverse-engineering....
• As in Protestant Europe, by contrast, where sects divided endlessly into smaller competing sects and no church dominated any other, all is different in the fragmented world of IBM.
  That realm is now a chaos of conflicting norms and standards that not even IBM can hope to control....
• blue box n. 1. obs. Once upon a time, before all-digital switches made it possible for the phone companies to move them out of band
  one could actually hear the switching tones used to route long-distance calls....
• monty /mon'tee/ n. 1. [US Geological Survey] A program with a ludicrously complex user interface written to perform extremely trivial tasks.
  An example would be a menu-driven, button clicking, pulldown, pop-up windows program for listing directories....
• 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....
• 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....
• all card: n. A PC/AT-size expansion card (these can be larger than IBM PC or XT cards because the AT case is bigger).
  See also {short card}. When IBM introduced the PS/2 model 30 (its last gasp at supporting the ISA) they made the case lower and many industry-standard tall cards wouldn't fi...