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• boa [IBM] n. Any one of the fat cables that lurk under the floor in a dinosaur pen.
  Possibly so called because they display a ferocious life of their own when you try to lay them straight and flat after they have been coiled for some time....
• washing machine: n. Old-style 14-inch hard disks in floor-standing cabinets.
  So called because of the size of the cabinet and the `top-loading' access to the media packs --- and, of course, they were always set on `spin cycle'....
• green card: n. [after the "IBM System/360 Reference Data" card] A summary of an assembly language, even if the color is not green.
  Less frequently used now because of the decrease in the use of assembly language....
• plumbing: [UNIX] n. Term used for {shell} code, so called because of the prevalence of `pipelines' that feed the output of one program to the input of another.
  Under UNIX, user utilities can often be implemented or at least prototyped by a suitable collection of pipelines and temp-file grinding encapsulated in a shell scrip...
• box: n. 1. A computer; esp. in the construction `foo box' where foo is some functional qualifier, like `graphics', or the name of an OS (thus, `UNIX box', `MS-DOS box', etc.
  ) "We preprocess the data on UNIX boxes before handing it up to the mainframe....
• OS/2: /O S too/ n. The anointed successor to MS-DOS for Intel 286- and 386-based micro
  proof that IBM/Microsoft couldn't get it right the second time, either....
• yellow wire: [IBM] n. 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....
• magic smoke: n. A substance trapped inside IC packages that enables them to function (also called `blue smoke'
  his is similar to the archaic `phlogiston' hypothesis about combustion)....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....