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/feep/ 1. n. The soft electronic bell sound of a display terminal (except
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for a VT-52); a beep (in fact, the microcomputer world seems to prefer beep
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). 2. vi. To cause the display to make a feep sound. ASR-33s (the original
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TTYs) do not feep; they have mechanical bells that ring. Alternate forms:
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beep , bleep , or just about anything suitably onomatopoeic. (Jeff MacNelly,
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in his comic strip Shoe , uses the word eep for sounds made by computer
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terminals and video games; this is perhaps the closest written approximation
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yet.) The term breedle was sometimes heard at SAIL, where the terminal
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bleepers are not particularly soft (they sound more like the musical
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equivalent of a raspberry or Bronx cheer; for a close approximation, imagine
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the sound of a Star Trek communicator's beep lasting for five seconds). The
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feeper on a VT-52 has been compared to the sound of a '52 Chevy stripping
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its gears. See also ding.
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