waldo

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

  waldo
  
     /wol'doh/ [Robert A. Heinlein's story "Waldo"] 1. A mechanical
     agent, such as a gripper arm, controlled by a human limb.
     When these were developed for the nuclear industry in the
     mid-1940s they were named after the invention described by
     Heinlein in the story, which he wrote in 1942.  Now known by
     the more generic term "telefactoring", this technology is of
     intense interest to NASA for tasks like space station
     maintenance.
  
     2. At Harvard (particularly by Tom Cheatham and students),
     this is used instead of foobar as a metasyntactic variable
     and general nonsense word.  See foo, bar, foobar,
     quux.
  
     [Jargon File]
  

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

  waldo
   /wol'doh/, n.
  
     [From Robert A. Heinlein's story Waldo]
  
     1. A mechanical agent, such as a gripper arm, controlled by a human
     limb. When these were developed for the nuclear industry in the
     mid-1940s they were named after the invention described by Heinlein
  in
     the story, which he wrote in 1942. Now known by the more generic term
     telefactoring, this technology is of intense interest to NASA for
     tasks like space station maintenance.
  
     2. At Harvard (particularly by Tom Cheatham and students), this is
     used instead of foobar as a metasyntactic variable and general
     nonsense word. See foo, bar, foobar, quux.
  

waldo - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Waldo, AL (town, FIPS 79488)
    Location: 33.39087 N, 86.03539 W
    Population (1990): 309 (115 housing units)
    Area: 7.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
  Waldo, AR (city, FIPS 72350)
    Location: 33.35247 N, 93.29532 W
    Population (1990): 1495 (669 housing units)
    Area: 5.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 71770
  Waldo, FL (city, FIPS 74925)
    Location: 29.79055 N, 82.17166 W
    Population (1990): 1017 (491 housing units)
    Area: 4.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 32694
  Waldo, KS (city, FIPS 74575)
    Location: 39.12015 N, 98.79750 W
    Population (1990): 57 (45 housing units)
    Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 67673
  Waldo, KY
    Zip code(s): 41632
  Waldo, OH (village, FIPS 80500)
    Location: 40.46159 N, 83.08557 W
    Population (1990): 340 (151 housing units)
    Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 43356
  Waldo, WI (village, FIPS 83100)
    Location: 43.67559 N, 87.94654 W
    Population (1990): 442 (155 housing units)
    Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 53093