Abbreviation: "There Is No Lumber Cartel". See Lumber Cartel. TINLC is a takeoff on
TINC.
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tip of the ice-cube n. //
[IBM] The visible part of something small and insignificant.
Used as an ironic comment in situations where `tip of the
iceberg' might be appropriate if the subject were at all
important.
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tired iron n.
[IBM] Hardware that is perfectly functional but far enough
behind the state of the art to have been superseded by new
products, presumably with sufficient improvement in bang-per-buck
that the old stuff is starting to look a bit like a dinosaur.
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tits on a keyboard n.
Small bumps on certain keycaps to keep touch-typists
registered. Usually on the 5 of a numeric keypad,
and on the F and J of a QWERTY keyboard; but older Macs, perverse as
usual, had them on the D and K keys
(this changed in 1999).