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CON

(CONsole) The DOS name for the keyboard and screen. See DOS device names and DOS Copy con.


con (esp US), conn Nautical
the place where a person who cons a vessel is stationed

con - [SF fandom] A science-fiction convention. Not used of other sorts of conventions, such as professional meetings. This term, unlike many others of SF-fan slang, is widely recognised even by hackers who aren't fans. "We'd been corresponding on the net for months, then we met face-to-face at a con."


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In interviews over the years, Beck has good-naturedly put up with exasperating questioning from this guitar-playing reporter on subjects ranging from what size his low E string is to his exact memories of filming the famous club scene with the Yardbirds in Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 mod- London classic, ``Blow-Up.
Slight ly fuzzed out and leaning on the garage side, the '60s comparisons are apt, especially considering the B-side's Yardbirds cover ("Lost Woman").
This story is demonstrably true for many of the British (and Irish) groups that enjoyed American success; one can clearly hear the influence in the early hits of such groups as the Animals, the Yardbirds, Them, the Spencer Davis Group, and, obviously, the Rolling Stones.
 
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