terminak

terminak

/ter'mi-nak`/ [Caltech, ca. 1979] Any malfunctioning computerterminal. A common failure mode of Lear-Siegler ADM 3aterminals caused the "L" key to produce the "K" code instead;complaints about this tended to look like "Terminak #3 has abad keyboard. Pkease fix." See AIDX, Nominal Semidestructor, Open DeathTrap, ScumOS, sun-stools,Telerat, HP-SUX.