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, NominalSemidestructor, Open DeathTrap, ScumOS, sun-stools,

Telerat, HP-SUX.

[Jargon File]

(1995-04-14)