Mollyguard

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  molly-guard /mol'ee-gard/ n. [University of Illinois] A shield to
     prevent tripping of some {Big Red Switch} by clumsy or ignorant hands.
     Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an
     IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed it
     twice in one day. Later generalized to covers over stop/reset switches
     on disk drives and networking equipment. In hardware catalogues, you'll


     see the much less interesting description "guarded button".
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  molly-guard
       
          /mol'ee-gard/ [University of Illinois] A shield to prevent
          tripping of some {Big Red Switch} by clumsy or ignorant hands.
          Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the
          BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter
          (named Molly) frobbed it twice in one day.  Later generalised
          to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and
          networking equipment.
       
          [{Jargon File}]