feep

feep
 /feep/

   1. n. The soft electronic `bell' sound of a display terminal (except
   for a VT-52); a beep (in fact, the microcomputer world seems to prefer
   {beep}).

   2. vi. To cause the display to make a feep sound. ASR-33s (the
   original TTYs) do not feep; they have mechanical bells that ring.
   Alternate forms: {beep}, `bleep', or just about anything suitably
   onomatopoeic. (Jeff MacNelly, in his comic strip Shoe, uses the word
   `eep' for sounds made by computer terminals and video games; this is
   perhaps the closest written approximation yet.) The term `breedle' was
   sometimes heard at SAIL, where the terminal bleepers are not
   particularly soft (they sound more like the musical equivalent of a
   raspberry or Bronx cheer; for a close approximation, imagine the sound
   of a Star Trek communicator's beep lasting for five seconds). The
   `feeper' on a VT-52 has been compared to the sound of a '52 Chevy
   stripping its gears. See also {ding}.
    

feep
breedle

   /feep/ 1.  The soft electronic "bell" sound of a display
   terminal (except for a VT-52); a beep (in fact, the
   microcomputer world seems to prefer {beep}).

   2. To cause the display to make a feep sound.  ASR-33s (the
   original TTYs) do not feep; they have mechanical bells that
   ring.  Alternate forms: {beep}, "bleep", or just about
   anything suitably onomatopoeic.  (Jeff MacNelly, in his comic
   strip "Shoe", uses the word "eep" for sounds made by computer
   terminals and video games; this is perhaps the closest written
   approximation yet.)  The term "breedle" was sometimes heard at
   SAIL, where the terminal bleepers are not particularly soft
   (they sound more like the musical equivalent of a raspberry or
   Bronx cheer; for a close approximation, imagine the sound of a
   Star Trek communicator's beep lasting for five seconds).  The
   "feeper" on a VT-52 has been compared to the sound of a '52
   Chevy stripping its gears.  See also {ding}.

   [{Jargon File}]