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tal@lemmy.today 6 days ago
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/molly-guard
molly-guard
Etymology: From Molly (female given name) + guard.
Originally a Plexiglas cover improvised for the Big Red Switch on an IBM 4341 mainframe after a programmer’s toddler daughter (named Molly) tripped it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.
displaced_city_mouse@midwest.social 6 days ago
I appreciate the info, but I wasn’t looking for a solution - I just wanted to vent a little…