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molly-guard
(foldoc) | molly-guard
/mol'ee-gard/ [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. Later generalised
to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and
networking equipment.
[Jargon File]
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molly-guard
(jargon) | 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. Later generalized to
covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment. In
hardware catalogues, you'll see the much less interesting description “
guarded button”.
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