Feep

2 definitions found

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

  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}.
  
  

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

  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}]