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)
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