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• Easter egging n. [IBM] The act of replacing unrelated components more or less at random in hopes that a malfunction will go away.
  Hackers consider this the normal operating mode of field circus techs and do not love them for it....
• field circus n. [a derogatory pun on `field service'] The field service organization of any hardware manufacturer, but originally DEC.
  There is an entire genre of jokes about field circus enginee...
• digit: n. An employee of Digital Equipment Corporation.
  See also {VAX}, {VMS}, {PDP-10}, {{TOPS-10}}, {DEChead}, {double DECkers}, {field circus}....
• hotgun debugging: n. The software equivalent of {Easter egging}
  the making of relatively undirected changes to software in the hope that a bug will be perturbed out of existence....
• field servoid: [play on `android'] /fee'ld ser'voyd/ n.
  Representative of a field service organization (see {field circus})....
• 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....
• purple wire: [IBM] n. 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....
• digit n.,obs. An employee of Digital Equipment Corporation.
  See also VAX, VMS, PDP-10, TOPS-10, field circus....
• field servoid [play on `android'] /fee'ld ser'voyd/ n.
  Representative of a field service organization (see field circus). This has many of the...