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De - Pt| English Dictionary: terminak | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for terminak | |
| From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
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terminak /ter'mi-nak`/ n. [Caltech, ca. 1979] Any malfunctioning computer terminal. A common failure mode of Lear-Siegler ADM 3a terminals caused the `L' key to produce the `K' code instead; complaints about this tended to look like "Terminak #3 has a bad keyboard. Pkease fix." Compare {dread high-bit disease}, {frogging}; see also {AIDX}, {Nominal Semidestructor}, {ScumOS}, {sun-stools}, {Telerat}, {HP-SUX}, {Slowlaris}. | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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terminak /ter'mi-nak`/ [Caltech, ca. 1979] Any malfunctioning computer terminal. A common failure mode of Lear-Siegler ADM 3a terminals caused the "L" key to produce the "K" code instead; complaints about this tended to look like "Terminak #3 has a bad keyboard. Pkease fix." See {AIDX}, {Nominal Semidestructor}, {Open DeathTrap}, {ScumOS}, {sun-stools}, {Telerat}, {HP-SUX}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-04-14) | |
