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digit n.,obs.
An employee of Digital Equipment
Corporation. See also VAX, VMS, PDP-10,
TOPS-10, field circus.
Related:
digit: n. An employee of Digital Equipment Corporation.
See also {VAX}, {VMS}, {PDP-10}, {{TOPS-10}}, {DEChead}, {double DECkers}, {field circus}....
PDP-10 n. [Programmed Data Processor model 10] The machine that made timesharing real.
It looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the mid-1970s by many university computing facilities and research labs, including the MIT AI Lab, Stanford, and CMU....
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...
field servoid [play on `android'] /fee'ld ser'voyd/ n.
Representative of a field service organization (see field circus). This has many of the...
Speaking of Godzilla and other things that convey horro
With a purposeful grimace and a Mongo-like flair He throws the spinning disk drives in the air!...
double DECkers: n. Used to describe married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
Easter egging n. [IBM] The act of replacing unrelated components more or less at random in hopes that a malfunction will go away.
Hackers consider this the normal operating mode of field circus techs and do not love them for it....
Easter egging: [IBM] n. The act of replacing unrelated components more or less at random in hopes that a malfunction will go away.
Hackers consider this the normal operating mode of {field circus} techs and do not love them for it....