blue wire

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blue wire - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  blue wire
  
     (IBM) Patch wires added to circuit boards at the factory to
     correct design or fabrication problems.  These may be
     necessary if there hasn't been time to design and qualify
     another board version.
  
     Compare purple wire, red wire, yellow wire.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1994-11-29)
  

blue wire - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  blue wire
   n.
  
     [IBM] Patch wires (esp. 30 AWG gauge) added to circuit boards at the
     factory to correct design or fabrication problems. Blue wire is not
     necessarily blue, the term describes function rather than color.
  These
     may be necessary if there hasn't been time to design and qualify
     another board version. In Great Britain this can be bodge wire, after
     mainstream slang bodge for a clumsy improvisation or sloppy job of
     work. Compare purple wire, red wire, yellow wire, pink wire.