feep

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feep - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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]
  

feep - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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.