Meanings
plural type-ins
- datedcomputingA program listing, printed in a magazine, etc., to be inputted and run by the reader.
The quality of the type-ins were ^([sic]) a cut above the ones found in rival magazines...
2005, Chris Kohler, Retro Gaming Hacks2 more examples
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.
1993 Sep, Jonathan Nash, “Jugglers Ahoy!”, in Your Sinclair...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.
1994, COMPUTE!
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