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finger trouble
 n.— «Sure we have all had disk problems, but what percentage of these were not associated with writing/deleting/finger-trouble/bad-handling—extremely small!» —“Re: software protection – dongles & other gizmos” by Raymond D. Dunn Usenet: net.micro.pc July 26, 1985. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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