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terminak: /terīmi·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
sun-stools, HP-SUX,
Slowlaris.
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