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green lightning n. [IBM] 1. Apparently random flashing streaks on the face of 3278-9 terminals while a new symbol set is being downloaded.
This hardware bug was left deliberately unfixed, ...
green machine n.
Green's Theorem prov. [TMRC] For any story, in any group of people there will be at least one person who has not heard the story.
A refinement of the theorem states that there will be exa...
greenbar n. A style of fanfolded continuous-feed paper with alternating green and white bars on it, especially used in old-style line printers.
This slang almost certainly dates way back ...
grep /grep/ vi.
gribble n. Random binary data rendered as unreadable text.
Noise characters in a data stream are displayed as gribble....
grilf // n. Girlfriend. Like newsfroup and filk, a typo reincarnated as a new word.
Seems to have originated sometime in 1992 on Usenet....
grind vt. 1. [MIT and Berkeley; now rare] To prettify hardcopy of code, especially LISP code, by reindenting lines, printing keywords and comments in distinct fonts (if available), etc.
T...
grind crank n. // A mythical accessory to a terminal.
A crank on the side of a monitor, which when operated makes a zizzing noise and causes the computer to run faster....
gripenet n.

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