May 15, 2003

yellow wire

n.

[IBM] 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. Compare blue wire, purple wire, red wire.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:22 AM

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