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• firebottle n.obs. A large, primitive, power-hungry active electrical device, similar in function to a FET but constructed out of glass, metal, and vacuum.
  Characterized by high cost, low density, low reliability, high-temperature operation, and high power dissipation....
• glassfet: /glas'fet/ [by analogy with MOSFET, the acronym for `Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor'] n.
  Syn. {firebottle}, a humorous way to refer to a vacuum tube. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• glassfet /glas'fet/ n. [by analogy with MOSFET, the acronym for `Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor'] Syn.
  firebottle, a humorous way to refer to a vacuum tube....
• iron: n. Hardware, especially older and larger hardware of {mainframe} class with big metal cabinets housing relatively low-density electronics (but the term is also used of modern supercomputers).
  Often in the phrase {big iron}. Oppose {silicon}....
• Buy low, sell high.
• Poetry and Power Tools, High Jumping and Low Ceilings, Wet Paint and Dry Cleaning, Power Lifting and Ice Skating.
  -- Things that don't go togethe...
• Starship trouper, flying high and low...
• VLSI: "Getting High On Low Voltage
• paper-net: n. Hackish way of referring to the postal service, analogizing it to a very slow, low-reliability network.
  USENET {sig block}s sometimes include a "Paper-Ne...