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• banana label: n. The labels often used on the sides of {macrotape} reels, so called because they are shaped roughly like blunt-ended bananas.
  This term, like macrotapes themselves, is still current but visibly headed for obsolescence....
• boxed comments: n. Comments (explanatory notes attached to program instructions) that occupy several lines by themselve
  o called because in assembler and C code they are often surrounded by a box in a style something like thi...
• ound tape: n. Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels.
  See {macrotape}, oppose {square tape}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• microfloppies: n. 3.5-inch floppies, as opposed to 5.
  25-inch {vanilla} or mini-floppies and the now-obsolete 8-inch variety....
• 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....
• wizard mode: [from {rogue}] n. A special access mode of a program or system, usually passworded, that permits some users godlike privileges.
  Generally not used for operating systems themselves (`root mode' or `wheel mode' would be used instead)....
• hell [orig. Multics n. techspeak, widely propagated via Unix] 1.
  [techspeak] The command interpreter used to pass commands to an operating system...
• pizza box: [Sun] n. The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially Sun) desktop workstatio
  o named because of its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air holes....
• core: n. Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of ferrite-core memory
  ow archaic as techspeak most places outside IBM, but also still used in the UNIX community and by old-time hackers or those who would sound like them....