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• molly-guard /mol'ee-gard/ n. [University of Illinois] A shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands.
  Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed it twice in one day....
• Big Red Switch: [IBM] n. The power switch on a computer, esp.
  he `Emergency Pull' switch on an IBM {mainframe} or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red....
• cram switch: [from the nuclear power industry] n. An emergency-power-off switch (see {Big Red Switch}), esp.
  one positioned to be easily hit by evacuating personnel....
• BRS: /B-R-S/ n. Syn. {Big Red Switch}. This abbreviation is fairly common on-line.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• Big Red Switch n. [IBM] The power switch on a computer, esp.
  he `Emergency Pull' switch on an IBM mainframe or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red....
• 120 reset: /wuhn-twen'tee ree'set/ [from 120 volts, U.
  S. wall voltage] n. To cycle power on a machine in order to reset or unjam it....
• DWIM /dwim/ [acronym, `Do What I Mean'] 1. adj. Able to guess, sometimes even correctly, the result intended when bogus input was provided.
  2. n. obs. The BBNLISP/INTERLISP function that attempted to accomplish this feat by correcting many of the more common errors....
• yellow wire: [IBM] n. Repair wires used when connectors (especially ribbon connectors) got broken due to some schlemiel pinching them
  or to reconnect cut traces after the FE mistakenly cut one....
• byte:: /bi:t/ [techspeak] n. A unit of memory or data equal to the amount used to represent one characte
  on modern architectures this is usually 8 bits, but may be 9 on 36-bit machines....