type-in

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type-in (plural type-ins)

  1. (computing, dated) A program listing, printed in a magazine, etc., to be inputted and run by the reader.
    • 1993 Sep, Jonathan Nash, “Jugglers Ahoy!”, in Your Sinclair:
      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.
    • 1994, COMPUTE!:
      ...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.
    • 2005, Chris Kohler, Retro Gaming Hacks:
      The quality of the type-ins were [sic] a cut above the ones found in rival magazines...

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