English

Noun

type-in ‎(plural type-ins)

1. (computing, dated) A program listing, published in a magazine, etc., to be typed and run by the reader.
   • 1993, Jonathan Nash, Jugglers Ahoy! (in Your Sinclair magazine, Sep 1993)

     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! magazine

     ...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...