Purple Wire N. [IBM] Wire Installed By Field Engineers To Work Around Problems Discovered During Testing Or Debugging.

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purple wire n.

[IBM] Wire installed by Field Engineers to work
around problems discovered during testing or debugging. These are
called `purple wires' even when (as is frequently the case) their
actual physical color is yellow.... Compare blue wire,
yellow wire, and red wire.

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