[1] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

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.


see also:
beep ding 

[2] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

feep
     
        /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
     
     
see also:
beep ding jargon file 

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