May 15, 2003

purple wire

n.

[IBM] Wire installed by Field Engineers to work around problems discovered during testing or debugging. These are called ‘purple wires’ even when (as is frequently the case) their actual physical color is yellow.... Compare blue wire, yellow wire, and red wire.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:33 AM

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