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Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10) 

chicken head

   The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly
   resembles a poultry part.  Rendered in ASCII as "C=".  With
   the arguable exception of the Amiga, Commodore's computers
   are notoriously crocky little bitty boxes (see also
   PETSCII).  Thus, this usage may owe something to Philip
   K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"  (the
   basis for the movie "Blade Runner"; the novel is now sold
   under that title), in which a "chickenhead" is a mutant with
   below-average intelligence.

   [Jargon File]

Source: Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) 

chicken head n. [Commodore] The Commodore Business Machines logo, which
   strongly resembles a poultry part (within Commodore itself the logo was
   always called `chicken lips'). Rendered in ASCII as `C='. With the
   arguable exception of the Amiga (see amoeba), Commodore's machines
   were notoriously crocky little bitty boxes (see also PETSCII),
   albeit people have written multitasking Unix-like operating systems with
   TCP/IP networking for them. Thus, this usage may owe something to Philip
   K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (the basis for
   the movie "Blade Runner"; the novel is now sold under that title), in
   which a `chickenhead' is a mutant with below-average intelligence.