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

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 the face of the booms and busts of the capitalist economy, the confidence game of shrewd deception and cool risk taking was often what was required--and secretly admired.
Against all odds by Tumber, Catherine / Commonweal
This unfamiliarity and heightened expectation, matched with the trappings of competence, gave potency to what has turned out to be the Bush administration's signature political tactic, the confidence game.
Confidence men: why the myth of Republican competence persists, ... by Marshall, Joshua Micah / Washington Monthly
If it sounds a bit like a confidence game, that may be because it's public confidence that gives money value in the first place.
The Art of the Deal by Walker, Jesse / Reason
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