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• Tin cans and a string....
• Burning technicians don't smell very nice...
  -- Jim Breen, Computer Communications and Networks lecture 19/03/91...
• NATO Integrated Communications System Telegraph Automatic Relay Equipment. What a mouthful!
• wirehead /wi:r'hed/ n. [prob. from SF slang for an electrical-brain-stimulation addict] 1.
  A hardware hacker, especially one who concentrates on communications hardware....
• wirehead: /wi:r'hed/ n. [prob. from SF slang for an electrical-brain-stimulation addict] 1.
  A hardware hacker, especially one who concentrates on communications hardware....
• Testing can show the presence of bugs, but not their absence.
  -- "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, Sep. 1985...
• WIZARD n. 1. A person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware work
  omeone who can find and fix his bugs in an emergency....
• MONASH UNIVERSITY COMPUTER CENTRE - MODEM DIAL-UP SERVICES Users of the Greater Monash University can now access the computer systems via modems 24 hours except when they are out of order.
  All four campuses are equipped with dial-in lines which under normal circumstances should be either engaged or not operational....
• moke test: n. 1. A rudimentary form of testing applied to electronic equipment following repair or reconfiguratio
  in which power is applied and the tester checks for sparks, smoke, or other dramatic signs of fundamental failure....