The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

tick-list features

   (Acorn Computers) Features in software or hardware that
   customers insist on but never use (calculators in desktop TSRs
   and that sort of thing).  The American equivalent would be
   "checklist features", but this jargon sense of the phrase has
   not been reported.

   (1995-01-06)


The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

tick-list features
 n.

    [Acorn Computers] Features in software or hardware that customers insist on
    but never use (calculators in desktop TSRs and that sort of thing). The
    American equivalent would be checklist features, but this jargon sense of
    the phrase has not been reported.