Reuel Titus's definitions

Persnickety

picky

Don't be so persnikety about what I put on your plate.

by Reuel Titus October 12, 2003

TTY

teletype, a combination keyboard, printer and modem.
Typically with a paper tape punch and reader to save long-distance costs.
Connections were typically made at 300 baud (bits per second) or 6 characters per second, the speed of a fast typist.

TTY access is generally available to government services for the benefit of the hearing impaired.

by Reuel Titus October 17, 2003

dip

Dual Inline Package

DIP's are chips that look like centipedes.

by Reuel Titus October 16, 2003

neologism

New words coined by the psychotic.

Pardon my apparent neologisms, they are colloquial terms I learned from my father.

by Reuel Titus October 21, 2003

EEPROM

Electically Eraseable Programmable Read Only Memory.
An EPROM that can be erased with a higher voltage than it is programmed with.

The robot worked fine until it's EEPROMs were erased by the power line.

by Reuel Titus October 16, 2003

glass tty

A very simple video display terminal without the capability of re-positioning the cursor so that lines of text roll off the top of the screen like an infinitely long roll of paper feeding into a paper shredder.

The user interface was strictly glass tty, the application doesn't even repaint the screen.

by Reuel Titus October 17, 2003

starfield

CCR music group

by Reuel Titus October 10, 2003