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• digit n.,obs. An employee of Digital Equipment Corporation.
  See also VAX, VMS, PDP-10, TOPS-10, field circus....
• double DECkers: n. Used to describe married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• 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....
• DEChead: /dek'hed/ n. 1. A {DEC} {field servoid}. Not flattering.
  2. [from `deadhead'] A Grateful Dead fan working at DEC. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• field servoid: [play on `android'] /fee'ld ser'voyd/ n.
  Representative of a field service organization (see {field circus})....
• VMS: /V-M-S/ n. DEC's proprietary operating system for its VAX minicompute
  one of the seven or so environments that loom largest in hacker folklore....
• PDP-10: [Programmed Data Processor model 10] n. 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....
• TOPS-10:: /tops-ten/ n. DEC's proprietary OS for the fabled {PDP-10} machines, long a favorite of hackers but now effectively extinct.
  A fountain of hacker folklore; see {Appendix A}....
• 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....