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• erminak: /ter'mi-nak`/ [Caltech, ca. 1979] n. Any malfunctioning computer terminal.
  A common failure mode of Lear-Siegler ADM 3a terminals caused the `L' key to produce the `K' code instead...
• glass tty /glas T-T-Y/ or /glas ti'tee/ n. A terminal that has a display screen but which
  because of hardware or software limitations, behaves like a teletype or some other printing terminal, thereby combining the disadvantages of both...
• glass tty: /glas T-T-Y/ or /glas ti'tee/ n. A terminal that has a display screen but which
  because of hardware or software limitations, behaves like a teletype or some other printing terminal, thereby combining the disadvantages of both...
• frogging [University of Waterloo] v. 1. Partial corruption of a text file or input stream by some bug or consistent glitch, as opposed to random events like line noise or media failures.
  Might occur, for example, if one bit of each incoming character on a tty were stuck, so that some characters were correct and others were not....
• bit-paired keyboard n.,obs. (alt. `bit-shift keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several years on early computer equipment.
  The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so the only way to generate the character codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage....
• Internet Exploder [very common] Pejorative hackerism for Microsoft's "Internet Explorer" web browser (also "Internet Exploiter").
  Compare HP-SUX, AIDX, buglix Macintrash, Telerat, ScumOS, Slowlaris....
• frogging: [University of Waterloo] v. 1. Partial corruption of a text file or input stream by some bug or consistent glitch, as opposed to random events like line noise or media failures.
  Might occur, for example, if one bit of each incoming character on a tty were stuck, so that some characters were correct and others were not....
• Nominal Semidestructor n. Soundalike slang for `National Semiconductor', found among other places in the Networking/2 networking sources.
  During the late 1970s to mid-1980s this company marketed a series of microprocessors including the NS16000 and NS32000 and several variants....
• Telerat /tel'*-rat/ n. obs. Unflattering hackerism for `Teleray', a now-extinct line of extremely losing terminals.
  Compare AIDX, Macintrash N ScumOS, sun-stools, HP-SUX...