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 Encyclopedia: Atari POKEY
The Atari POKEY is a digital I/O chip found in the Atari 8-bit family of home computers and many arcade games in the 1980s.
POKEY is also well known for its sound effect and music generation capabilities, producing a distinctive square wave sound popular among chip tune aficionados.
The design of the POKEY made it possible for games to have polyphonic music and sound effects of up to four channels.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Atari-POKEY   (1010 words)

  
 National Anatolian Shepherd Rescue Network--In Memory of Pokey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Pokey was rescued from a dog pound when he was about one year old.
Pokey enjoyed sleeping in bed and especially liked his one on one time, sitting on the couch, getting a lot of love and attention.
Pokey became increasingly unpredictable, and because of his sheer size and strength, possibly dangerous.
www.nasrn.org /dedication.htm   (424 words)

  
 POKEY FROM THE BIG CITY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Pokey was a 5th grade student who moved into our town from a big city just outside of Boston.
Pokey had devised a passive plan where he would "poke" along so slow with his work that he was driving people crazy.
Pokey said that now that he is in a school where kids are more friendly and don’t push him around he can do his schoolwork without worrying about getting beat up.
home.comcast.net /~gmcgurn/pokey.html   (813 words)

  
 Truehart of the CIO
POKEY was a tough area in the northeast quadrant of the Mother Board.
POKEY was the toughest neighborhood on the whole Mother Board.
In fact, he was so engrossed in their labors, he hardly noticed the security POKEY that was jabbing at his kneecaps with a sharp stick.
www.atarimagazines.com /hi-res/v1n3/truehart.php   (1700 words)

  
 Hokey Pokey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Hokey Pokey is a participation dance that became popular in the USA in the 1950s.
The "Hokey Pokey" appeared on the B side of Anthony's "Bunny Hop" single.) Its rights were purchased in the mid-1960s by country-western music star Roy Acuff's publishing company, Acuff-Rose.
Hokey Pokey is also the name used in New Zealand for a kind of confectionary known elsewhere as honeycomb.
www.wikiverse.org /hokey-pokey   (424 words)

  
 Pokey
The NiCad pack is far too heavy to use (10 oz, while Pokey current weighs 11 oz including the 9v and 2 x 3v batteries), but this suggests that 3 x 3v Lithium batteries may give enough current for the motors, with the standard 9v battery being used to run the electronics.
However, while I was out of the room (with Pokey's power switched on, but with him in an idle state waiting for a start pushbutton), the capacitor fried, becoming something like a 1 ohm resistor.
Pokey had his first Sumo matches against opponents that I didn't build at the 10/26/02 AHRC meeting.
home.midsouth.rr.com /mckayaveryt/pokey.html   (4689 words)

  
 Comixpedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Pokey loiters across the Antarctic landscape (usually represented by one or two fl lines on a white background), yelling commands and antagonizing the other denizens, like some penguin-who-would-be-king.
Pokey's one of those webcomics that really only exist because of the Internet — it would be hard to see something like this in any other medium.
It's difficult to tell whether Pokey was made in MS Paint or whether it's just an accurate depiction, but it becomes apparent after reading a couple comics that the author intends the comic to be hilariously bad to watch.
www.comixpedia.com /print.php?sid=695&POSTNUKESID=8369fcd6fa182af8dd0d911057655871   (586 words)

  
 Scout.com: Detect-o-Vision: Pokey, Not Yer Typical Scrub
In 1999 Pokey Reese was; (a) a dazzling glove wizard who cemented the Reds’ entire infield defense, and; (b) an exciting leadoff man who hit.285 with walks, doubles, and plenty ‘nuff stolen bases.
That (1) Pokey Reese is a truly horrific batter, that (2) Pokey’s a glove wizard, just as good defensively as he is bad offensively.
Pokey Reese isn’t a scrub in the sense that Jolbert Cabrera is a scrub.
mariners.scout.com /2/337866.html   (1780 words)

  
 KFFL - Pokey Reese, SS, Free Agents
Mariners.MLB.com's Doug Miller reports Seattle Mariners SS Pokey Reese (shoulder) is slow to recover from shoulder surgery and his goal is to return by the end of the season.
Updating previous items, John Hickey, of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, reports Seattle Mariners SS Pokey Reese is expected to open the season as the team's starting shortstop, but there is still a chance he could be reduced to a utility role if 21-year-old SS Jose Lopez displays the necessary defensive consistency to earn the starting job.
The Boston Herald's Jeff Horrigan is reporting 2B Pokey Reese is expected to be in Boston for a physical examination Monday after tentatively agreeing to a one-year deal believed to be in the $800,000-$1 million range.
www.kffl.com /player/5314/mlb   (2122 words)

  
 Assembly Language: Hokey Pokey Interrupts
POKEY timer interrupts can be used to keep track of events that occur more frequently than 60 times per second or as seldom as once every four seconds.
Atari has not employed this POKEY interrupt scheme in any programs even though the Operating System supports It (except for POKEY timer number four, due to a bug in Operating System Revision A).
This is also true of I/O processing because POKEY uses the voices to clock data coming into and going out of the computer on the serial bus.
www.atarimagazines.com /v2n4/hokeypokey.html   (1014 words)

  
 Hokey Pokey -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Hokey Pokey is a (Click link for more info and facts about participation dance) participation dance that became popular in the (The army of the United States of America; organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare) USA in the (The decade from 1950 to 1959) 1950s.
Its rights were purchased in the mid- (The decade from 1960 to 1969) 1960s by (Click link for more info and facts about country-western music) country-western music star (Click link for more info and facts about Roy Acuff) Roy Acuff's publishing company, Acuff-Rose.
There are many theories and conjectures about the meaning of the words "Hokey Pokey", and of their origin.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ho/hokey_pokey.htm   (532 words)

  
 Pokey Is A Gamer
Despite going on the 60 day DL on 5/4, Pokey is expected to be in Boston this weekend to recieve his Ring.
Pokey may have been sitting on the bench for a while, but he's been saving up some GREAT plays...
Pokey got some good-natured chin music from an old teammate in Anaheim after trying to lay down a bunt, but that's not what Pokey saw.
www.pokeyisagamer.com   (510 words)

  
 Pokey @BoilerBots.com
Pokey was built using a robot that had already proven to be tough.
Well, everything is pretty much a blur, but I remember hitting the lift button the last time and a split second later Pokey was on its side.
Pokey was dead and I held 2 others trapped in the corner.
www.boilerbots.com /BOT_POK/pok_rwh.html   (2142 words)

  
 Pokey's page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Pokey is now six and a half months, and very small for her age.
Pokey is very healthy and is beginning to venture outside, as long as Callie is with her.
Pokey is walking away but I, (Megan) luckily snapped a picture of her just in time.
www.pausd.palo-alto.ca.us /schoolsites/hays/webteam/MA/Pokeyspage.htm   (444 words)

  
 Excavators in 1 truckload of hokey pokey elmo
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www.excavators-in-1.com /trucking-freight/truckload-of-hokey-pokey-elmo.htm   (208 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Pokey Counts: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Pokey the orange pony, buddy of Gumby, is pretty good at counting.
Parents will love introducing their young'uns to their childhood favorite, Pokey, as well as to Gumby in his own foam book, Gumby's Colors.
This much-loved claymation hero and his spunky sidekicks (his best pal Pokey, the free-spirited Mermaid Goo, Prickle the dinosaur, and the troublesome Blockhead bullies) are back.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0811827348?v=glance   (523 words)

  
 Straphangers Campaign
The slowest of the city’s 190 local bus routes is the M34 cross-town, averaging 4 miles per hour at 5 p.m., as estimated by MTA New York City Transit.
In the 2002 Pokey Awards, the groups found that the slowest bus route in the city was the M96, which travels cross-town in Manhattan along 96th Street.
The 2003 Pokeys were calculated by using New York City Transit afternoon running times and schedules at the most crowded points for 60 of the most-used local bus routes in New York City.
www.straphangers.org /pokeyaward/release04.html   (904 words)

  
 ComputerUser.com News: Pokey Worm Is Moving Slow But Hitting Hard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
She said Pokey's relatively slow distribution probably has more to do with the widespread availability of effective virus-protection software coupled with the likelihood that it was originally released among some low-volume mailers.
While some reports have called Pokey a variant of the infamous "Love Bug" worm, Orbuch said they are similar only in that they both use the mail system application programming interface known as MAPI to send copies of themselves to contacts found in the address books of Microsoft Outlook users.
When Pokey is executed, it displays another image of Pikachu and the message: "Between millions of people around the world i found you.
www.computeruser.com /news/00/08/25/news16.html   (612 words)

  
 Bud Boren's CJ-7, Pokey
Pokey started out as a perfectly and totally stock 1984 CJ-7 about five years ago.
The Ruby has the biggest reputation and is a lot of fun but nowhere near as challenging as some of the others, although it's more fun as a party trail and for camping than many of the others.
If ya see Pokey running down the trail with some old guy with no hair, no teeth and his eyes shut, it's a good bet it's me so stop me and say hi.
www.4x4wire.com /jeep/gallery/cj7/bboren84cj7   (1246 words)

  
 Pokey the Penguin by Steve Havelka, reviewed by Justin :: Comixpedia :: Covering the Digital Frontier of Comics Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Posted on Sunday, July 13, 2003 - 03:29 PM Three words, typed completely in caps, are recognized in the webcomics community as the catchphrase of one of its longest-running cult heroes.
His main sidekick/victim is Little Girl, who looks exactly like Pokey, only half his size and wearing a bow.
Pokey's fame has inspired fan sites, bootleg merchandise, and the most flattering of all, vandalism.
www.comixpedia.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=695&POSTNUKESID=55d2f3c1b756793b141b6cb8549c1b3d   (744 words)

  
 Urban Dictionary: pokey
Pokey is a fat pussy with no friends.
Linda likes to pokey her own vocabulary as often as possible.
Derived from Pokey, an antagonist in the RPG 'Earthbound'
www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=pokey&defid=1035716   (251 words)

  
 ISHOF - Lillian "Pokey" Watson (USA) - 1984 Honor Swimmer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
"Pokey" Watson swam her way from Minneola, New York to Honolulu, Hawaii with gold medal stop-offs in Tokyo for the 1964 Olympics and Mexico City for the 1968 Games.
Between her Olympic gold medals, the omnipotent "Pokey" (who never was pokey in the water) made nine overseas trips with U.S. teams.
Thought of principally as a crawl swimmer who had been at it a long, long time, Pokey and her coach George Haines decided to turn her over and almost unnoticed, she won the 100 backstroke at the 1967 U.S. Outdoor Nationals.
www.ishof.org /84lwatson.html   (303 words)

  
 Pokey the Penguin : Chicago-style   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Visually it resembles the drawings of a four-year old with a short-attention span and poor motor control.
All th same they are filled with glimmerings of plots and strange connections between things, and the dialogue--by contrast with the drawings--has a peculiarly knowing and subtle air about it, despite the fact that it is delivered entirely in italicized capitals with multiple exclamation marks.
It uses material from the wikipedia article Pokey the Penguin : Chicago-style.
www.eurofreehost.com /ch/Chicago-style.html   (313 words)

  
 ESPN.com: Pokey Reese Player Card
Pokey Reese has not been involved in any transactions this season.
Shortstop Pokey Reese agreed Tuesday to a $1.2 million, one-year contract with the Seattle Mariners, an agreement with a club option that could make the deal worth up to $4.45 million over two seasons.
OF Trot Nixon and 2B Pokey Reese were activated from the disabled list by Boston on Tuesday as expected.
sports.espn.go.com /mlb/players/profile?statsId=5746   (238 words)

  
 Gund Pokey
Gund's cuddly pal, Pokey is just about the best friend baby could ask for.
Super soft and offering unlimited warm hugs, Pokey is the favorite of children everywhere.
Trimming Pokey's neck is a sheer champagne colored ribbon.
www.bearst.com /pokey.html   (144 words)

  
 Pokey The Environmentalist
"Gumby and Pokey are in this television spot on the air in California, and then it is going to be aired across the country.
"Pokey is trying to make children more aware that automobile exhaust isn't good for the lungs," Art said.
In the commercial, when Pokey inhales exhaust he turns several different colors.
www.gumbyworld.com /memorylane/histpok4.htm   (171 words)

  
 POKEY THE PENGUIN!! REBOOTLEGGED
That was drawn by someone who despaired at the lack of daily updates to POKEY THE PENGUIN.
What I was looking at was something that explained every aspect of working life, and gave meaning to the hopelessness of ever trying to help people with computing qualifications far greater than my own understand how to "LOG ON", or "PRINT", or any of the other subtleties.
I started this bootleg of Pokey the Penguin on June 2nd 2000, after reading that some people had been saying BAD THINGS about POKEY THE PENGUIN and THE AUTHORS, because there was not a new strip every day.
pokey.scm.tees.ac.uk   (641 words)

  
 Wired News: 'Pokey' Wins His Domain Name
The story began last fall when Christopher Van Allen, who has gone by the nickname "Pokey" his whole life, was given the hip birthday present of a domain name -- pokey.org.
He and his parents were taken aback and enlisted the help of Philadelphia law firm Woodcock and Washburn to stake Van Allen's claim to pokey.org.
Instead, the Pokey Web, as the site is called, displays Van Allen's take on videogames such as Quake and animation like South Park, as well as remedies for boredom.
www.wired.com /news/business/0,1367,11846,00.html   (524 words)

  
 Lacey Chabert meets Pokey the Penguin!!!
However, this is simply one manifestation of my interpretation of the Pokey paradigm, and shouldn't be treated as anything else.
My intent is to channel the beauty of Pokey the Penguin through a creative outlet, incorporating my favorite actress and a great inspiration (Lacey Chabert), to express myself and create works of art that hopefully others will enjoy as well.
Views expressed on this page, other than views carried over from POKEY THE PENGUIN are my own, and not those of Pokey the Penguin, THE AUTHORS, the Mungododomias, The Establishment, the Irish Republican Army, or any other person or entity.
users.ipa.net /~cmcpher/laceypokey   (804 words)

  
 The Breadboard Pokey Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Atari Pokey chip, pictured above is used on several of their early 8 bit computers, but is used much more widely in the early 80s video game PCBs, where it produced much of the sound effects and music for the games.
The pokey has already been emulated for MAME, and so the source code to a pokey emulator was already available.
This could be re-written for a fast microcontroller, and with a few additional chips, could be made into a Pokey.
www.leopardcats.com /bbpokey/breadboard_pokey_project.htm   (679 words)

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