Type-in
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Type-in is a noun meaning (computing, dated) A program listing, printed in a magazine, etc., to be inputted and run by the reader.
Meaning
(computing, dated) A program listing, printed in a magazine, etc., to be inputted and run by the reader.
Example Sentences
The quality of the type-ins were ^([sic]) a cut above the ones found in rival magazines.
...why did we drop the type-ins, people asked. Here's why. In 1979, when COMPUTE!'s first issue appeared, personal computers were scarce. Software for those computers was even scarcer.
Now, there aren't many magazines for which I'd have been prepared to write the tips pages two years running. And even fewer that would inspire me to compile their type-in pages for month after month. But YS tips and type-ins weren't like other magazines', and I didn't mind doing them at all.
Word Forms
- type-ins
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include term, computerette, tabulation, typeahead, tabulator, teletype.
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