molly-guard

molly-guard

/mol'ee-gard/ [University of Illinois] A shield to preventtripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands.Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for theBRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter(named Molly) frobbed it twice in one day. Later generalisedto covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives andnetworking equipment.