microstation

Noun

microstation (plural microstations)

1. A small networked computer with limited capabilities.
   • As regards satellite data service networks, Alcatel offers FASTAR consisting of a hub which can manage thousands of easily installable microstations, easily portable and spread over user sites.1991, Electrical Communication - Volume 65, Issues 1-3, page 90
   • The tables that held their three Sun microstations were made from doors bought at a hardware store.2010, Marsha Collier, The Ultimate Online Customer Service Guide, →ISBN
2. Synonym of microbroadcaster.
   • Freedom Forum's Paul McMasters calls microstation operators "the broadcast equivalent of the old anonymous pamphleteers or alternative newspapers."2005, Robert L. Hilliard, Michael C. Keith, The quieted voice: the rise and demise of localism in American radio, page 196
   • "The obstacle course that the F.C.C. has established for licensing full-power commercial broadcasters is so daunting and overwhelming,” writes Lou Hiken, “that no microstation could ever pass muster in that context. It is as if the government demanded that mothers taking splinters out of their...2011, Greg Ruggiero, Microradio & Democracy: (Low) Power to the People, →ISBN

   Synonyms:

   microbroadcaster