User:Sumshee/GLITCH (word origin)

GLITCH (word origin) In the old days of military radio corps, radios were quite sizable. The "control head" was the section of the radio on the dash. Much of the rest of the total radio was huge (power supply, mostly) and was stowed under a seat or on a sidewall of the floorboard, connected with a main cable to the control head. The control head was the place where most problems would occur because that was where the microphone, switches and volume control, etc. were... the “working parts”. When a radio was malfunctioning and the technician could not pin down the problem in a time-efficient manner, he abbreviated his final report on the issue by writing "GLITCH" on the report, sending the situation on to another tech for a change-out of the whole unit. Blaming the problem on elusive "Gremlins", “GLITCH" stands for GREMLIMS LOOSE IN THE CONTROL HEAD.