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• lap on the side: n. (also called a {sidecar}, or abbreviated `SOTS'.
  ) A type of external expansion hardware marketed by computer manufacturers (e....
• 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....
• 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 boxes without hardware memory management (such as the IBM PC and Commodore PET) that can overload and trash analog electronics in the monitor....
• hort card n. A half-length IBM XT expansion card or adapter that will fit in one of the two short slots located towards the right rear of a standard chassis (tucked behind the floppy disk drives).
  See also tall card....
• hort card: n. A half-length IBM PC expansion card or adapter that will fit in one of the two short slots located towards the right rear of a standard chassis (tucked behind the floppy disk drives).
  See also {tall card}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• chicken head n. [Commodore] The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part (within Commodore itself the logo was always called `chicken lips').
  Rendered in ASCII as `C='. With the arguable exception of the Amiga (see amoeba), Commodore's machines are notoriously crocky little bitty boxes (see also PETSCII)....
• 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....
• Amiga n A series of personal computer models originally sold by Commodore
  based on 680x0 processors, custom support chips and an operating system that combined some of the best features of Macintosh and Unix with compatibility with neither....