1. On an MIT {space-cadet keyboard}, use of all four of the shifting
keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key.
2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in {raw mode}, use of four shift
keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are
the control and meta keys on both sides of the keyboard. This was
very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the
left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the
right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth
key with your nose.
Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice,
because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to
some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a
program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say
something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while
whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle."
See {double bucky}, {bucky bits}, {cokebottle}.
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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {bucky bits}{cokebottle}{double bucky}{space-cadet keyboard}{Vulcan nerve pinch}]