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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>molly-guard</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="mojibake.html" title="mojibake"/><link rel="next" href="Mongolian-Hordes-technique.html" title="Mongolian Hordes technique"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">molly-guard</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mojibake.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Mongolian-Hordes-technique.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="molly-guard"/><dt xmlns="" id="molly-guard"><b>molly-guard</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mol´ee·gard/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [University of Illinois] A shield to prevent tripping of some
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<a href="../B/Big-Red-Switch.html"><i class="glossterm">Big Red Switch</i></a> by clumsy or ignorant hands.
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Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an IBM
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4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed it twice
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in one day. Later generalized to covers over stop/reset switches on disk
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drives and networking equipment. In hardware catalogues, you'll see the
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much less interesting description “<span class="quote">guarded button</span>”.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mojibake.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Mongolian-Hordes-technique.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">mojibake </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Mongolian Hordes technique</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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