terminak /ter'mi-nak`/ n.

[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." Compare [dread high-bit disease], [frogging]; see also [AIDX], [Nominal Semidestructor], [ScumOS], [sun-stools], [Telerat], [HP-SUX], [Slowlaris].

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