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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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/moleegard/ , n. [University of Illinois] A shield to prevent tripping of
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some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands. Originally used of the
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plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's
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toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed it twice in one day. Later
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generalized to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking
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equipment. In hardware catalogues, you'll see the much less interesting
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description guarded button.
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