Yellow wire

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yellow wire
Usage: n.
Etymology: IBM
Derivation: IBM

See Also: blue wire, purple wire, red wire


yellow wire: n.

[IBM] Repair wires used when connectors (especially ribbon connectors) got broken due to some schlemiel pinching them, or to reconnect cut traces after the FE mistakenly cut one. Compare blue wire, purple wire, red wire.

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Source: yellow wire, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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