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• quadruple bucky: n., obs. 1. On an MIT {space-cadet keyboard}, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key.
  2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in {raw mode}, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard....
• quadruple bucky n. obs. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, hyper, and super) while typing a character key.
  2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on both sides of the keyboard....
• bucky bits /buh'kee bits/ n. 1. obs. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and 400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set.
  The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL and META keys, resulting in a 12-bit character se...
• double bucky adj. Using both the CTRL and META keys.
  The command to burn all LEDs is double bucky F....
• meta bit: n. The top bit of an 8-bit character, which is on in character values 128--255.
  Also called {high bit}, {alt bit}, or {hobbit}....
• meta bit n. The top bit of an 8-bit character, which is on in character values 128-255.
  Also called high bit, alt bit, or (rarely) hobbit....
• cokebottle: /kohk'bot-l/ n. Any very unusual character, particularly one you can't type because it it isn't on your keyboard.
  MIT people used to complain about the `control-meta-cokebottle' commands at SAIL, and SAIL people complained right back about the `{altmode}-altmode-cokebottle' commands at MIT....
• cokebottle /kohk'bot-l/ n. Any very unusual character, particularly one you can't type because it isn't on your keyboard.
  MIT people used to complain about the `control-meta-cokebottle' commands at SAIL, and SAIL people complained right back about the `escape-escape-cokebottle' commands at MIT....
• bit-paired keyboard n.,obs. (alt. `bit-shift keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several years on early computer equipment.
  The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so the only way to generate the character codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage....