purple wire
purple wire
(jargon, hardware)Wire installed by
IBM Field Engineers to
work around problems discovered during testing or debugging.
These are called "purple wires" even when (as is frequently
the case) they are yellow.
Compare
blue wire,
yellow wire, and
red wire.
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