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- JOKIN' AROUND DISK
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- LEEJAN ENTERPRISES
- P.O. Box 66. Happy Valley.
- South Australia. 5159.
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- COMPUTER DICTIONARY
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- Most computer owners are not electronic/or computer experts....though when
- reading magazines, articles etc..they use terms, abbreviations, and computer
- slang known only to the informed. With the following dictionary even you can
- understand it!
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- 8086 - The year you finally pay off your computer.
- 8087 - The year you finally pay off your peripherals.
- 8088 - The year your spouse forgives you for buying the computer.
- Address - Type of attire worn by some female programmers.
- Algol - The husband of Polygol, their missing daughter is Polygon.
- Altair - A place where computers are sacraficed.
- Array - A blast from a CRT.
- Backup - Opposite of forward.
- Branch - A stick used for beating.
- Buffer - A programmer who works in the nude.
- Coding - An addictive drug.
- Computer - A device designed to speed and automate errors.
- Cp/m - Program listing for 'Look in the evening section'.
- Cpu - C3po's mother.
- Dip - Inventor of a famous switch.
- Disk Drive - A motor for a frisbee.
- Duplex - Having two apartments.
- Forth - One of the top five computer languages.
- GiGo - Garbage in garbage out.
- Ibm - In London a frequent answer to the question 'Where is the
- tourguide? "I be 'im."
- IC - Understanding as in 'Oh, IC'.
- Initailize - Carving your initials on a floppy disk.
- Interate - A healthy illiterate.
- Joystick - A peripherial intended for use only by consenting adults.
- Keyboard - Resembling a typewritter, a keyboard is used for entering
- errors into the computer.
- Kilo - What you could have spent your money on if you hadn't
- bought the computer.
- Language - A system of organizing and defining syntax errors.
- Math Chip - A piece of a broken abacus.
- Megabyte - A nine course dinner.
- Memory Map - A sheet of paper showing location of computer store.
- Mhz - Acronym for 'Megahurtz', meaning 'a million pains'.
- Microfiche - Sardines.
- Nanosecond - Mork's stunt man.
- Newdos - Acronym for 'Not Exactly What The Dealer Offers To sell you.
- Pascal - Computer language used for college football player's
- Known in full as `Pass Calvin or Else'.
- Password - The nonsense word taped to the CRT.
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- From the
- JOKIN' AROUND DISK
- by
- LEEJAN ENTERPRISES
- P.O. Box 66. Happy Valley.
- South Australia. 5159.
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