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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>feep</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="featurectomy.html" title="featurectomy"/><link rel="next" href="feeper.html" title="feeper"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">feep</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="featurectomy.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="feeper.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="feep"/><dt xmlns="" id="feep"><b>feep</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/feep/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.</span> The soft electronic
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‘bell’ sound of a display terminal (except for a VT-52); a beep
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(in fact, the microcomputer world seems to prefer
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<a href="../B/beep.html"><i class="glossterm">beep</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">vi.</span> To cause the display to
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make a feep sound. ASR-33s (the original TTYs) do not feep; they have
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mechanical bells that ring. Alternate forms: <a href="../B/beep.html"><i class="glossterm">beep</i></a>,
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‘bleep’, or just about anything suitably onomatopoeic. (Jeff
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MacNelly, in his comic strip <i class="citetitle">Shoe</i>, uses the word
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‘eep’ for sounds made by computer terminals and video games;
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this is perhaps the closest written approximation yet.) The term
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‘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,
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imagine the sound of a Star Trek communicator's beep lasting for five
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seconds). The ‘feeper’ on a VT-52 has been compared to the
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sound of a '52 Chevy stripping its gears. See also
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<a href="../D/ding.html"><i class="glossterm">ding</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="featurectomy.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="feeper.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">featurectomy </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> feeper</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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