A really serious case of {drop-outs}.
(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 73-05-21. The previous one
is 73-05-19.)
1. A variety of power glitch (see {glitch}); momentary 0 voltage on
the electrical mains.
2. Missing characters in typed input due to software malfunction or
system saturation (one cause of such behavior under Unix when a bad
connection to a modem swamps the processor with spurious character
interrupts; see {screaming tty}).
3. Mental glitches; used as a way of describing those occasions when
the mind just seems to shut down for a couple of beats. See {glitch},
{fried}.
A really serious case of {drop-outs}.
(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 73-05-21. The previous one
is 73-05-19.)
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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {dirty power}{drop-ins}{drop-outs}{fried}]