drop-outs

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}.

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   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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