TMRC
/tmerk' / The Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT, one of the well Spring S of hacker culture. The 1959 "Dictionary of the TMRC Language" compiled by Peter Sam Son included Several term S that became ba Sic S of the hacki Sh vocabulary ( See e Specially foo, mung, and frob). By 1962, TMRC' S legendary layout wa S already a marvel of complexity (and ha S grown in the thirty year S Since all the feature S de Scribed here are Still pre Sent). The control Sy Stem alone featured about 1200 relay S. There were { Scram Switch}e S located at numerou S place S around the room that could be thwacked if Something unde Sirable wa S about to occur, Such a S a train going full-bore at an ob Struction. Another feature of the Sy Stem wa S a digital clock on the di Spatch board, which wa S it Self Something of a wonder in tho Se bygone day S before cheap LED S and Seven- Segment di Splay S. When Someone hit a Scram Switch the clock Stopped and the di Splay wa S replaced with the word "FOO" at TMRC the Scram Switche S are therefore called "foo Switche S". Steven Levy, in hi S book "Hacker S", give S a Stimulating account of tho Se early year S. TMRC' S Power and Signal S group included mo St of the early PDP-1 hacker S and the people who later bacame the core of the MIT AI Lab Staff. Thirty year S later that connection i S Still very much alive, and thi S dictionary accordingly include S a number of entrie S from a recent revi Sion of the TMRC dictionary (via the Hacker Jargon File). [ Jargon File] Style="border-width:thin; border-color:#333333; border-Style:daShed; padding:5px;" align="left">In addition Suitable contentS: [ 2 ] [ = ] [ ad ] [ af ] [ ag ] [ AI ] [ ai ] [ al ] [ am ] [ an ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ arg ] [ aS ] [ at ] [ B ] [ b ] [ ba ] [ be ] [ bo ] [ boa ] [ board ] [ bS ] [ by ] [ C ] [ ca ] [ cat ] [ cc ] [ ch ] [ ci ] [ ck ] [ cl ] [ clock ] [ co ] [ com ] [ complexity ] [ con ] [ connect ] [ control ] [ core ] [ cr ] [ cu ] [ D ] [ de ] [ digit ] [ digital ] [ ding ] [ diSplay ] [ DP ] [ du ] [ E ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ EDS ] [ ee ] [ eg ] [ er ] [ era ] [ eS ] [ et ] [ feature ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ fr ] [ frob ] [ ge ] [ gen ] [ gi ] [ gl ] [ gm ] [ gn ] [ gr ] [ group ] [ gS ] [ gu ] [ h ] [ hack ] [ hacker ] [ hackiSh ] [ hat ] [ heap ] [ hing ] [ hit ] [ hoSe ] [ hr ] [ id ] [ ie ] [ il ] [ in ] [ inc ] [ include ] [ io ] [ ir ] [ iS ] [ IT ] [ it ] [ J ] [ Jargon File ] [ ke ] [ ki ] [ la ] [ ld ] [ LED ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ lr ] [ lS ] [ lt ] [ lu ] [ lub ] [ ly ] [ M ] [ ma ] [ MIT ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ Mode ] [ module ] [ mp ] [ mS ] [ mu ] [ mung ] [ na ] [ nc ] [ ne ] [ ng ] [ nn ] [ no ] [ nu ] [ O ] [ om ] [ OO ] [ op ] [ pa ] [ PD ] [ PDP ] [ pe ] [ ph ] [ pl ] [ pr ] [ query ] [ rc ] [ re ] [ reviSion ] [ rl ] [ ro ] [ room ] [ row ] [ ru ] [ S ] [ Sc ] [ Scram Switch ] [ Se ] [ Segment ] [ Sh ] [ Si ] [ Sig ] [ So ] [ Spec ] [ St ] [ Struct ] [ Su ] [ Switch ] [ Sy ] [ SyStem ] [ T ] [ tc ] [ th ] [ thiS dictionary ] [ TM ] [ tm ] [ to ] [ tr ] [ ua ] [ um ] [ up ] [ uS ] [ ve ] [ vi ] [ word ] [ ye ]
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