bitty box /bit'ee boks/ n.
1. A computer sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable as
to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of
developing software on or for it. Especially used of small,
obsolescent, single-tasking-only personal machines such as the
Atari 800, Osborne, Sinclair, VIC-20, TRS-80, or IBM PC. 2.
[Pejorative] More generally, the opposite of `real computer' (see
Get a real
computer!). See also mess-dos, toaster, and toy.