(1) An output bin in a document feeding or punch card machine. Contrast with hopper.
(2) (Stacker) An earlier real time compression program from Stac Electronics, Carlsbad, CA. It doubled the disk capacity of a DOS, Windows, Mac or OS/2 computer.
(2) (Stacker) An earlier real time compression program from Stac Electronics, Carlsbad, CA. It doubled the disk capacity of a DOS, Windows, Mac or OS/2 computer.
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