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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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- Incomplete Computer Glossary
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- BIT: A word used to describe computers, as in 'Our son's computer cost quite
- a bit.'
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- BOOT: What your friends give you because you spend too much time bragging
- about your computer skills.
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- BUG: What your eyes do after you stare at the tiny green computer screen for
- more than 15 minutes. Also: What computer magazine companies do to you
- after getting your name on the mailing list.
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- CHIPS: The fattening, non-nutritional food computer users eat to avoid having
- to leave their computers for meals.
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- COPY: What you have to do during school tests because you spend too much time
- at the computer and not enough time studying.
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- CURSOR: What you turn into when you can't get your computer to perform as in
- "You $#$%c% computer!"
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- DISK: What goes out in your back after bending over a computer keyboard for
- seven hours at a clip.
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- DUMP: The place all your former hobbies wind up soon after you install your
- computer.
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- ERROR: What you made the first time you went into a computer showroom
- 'just to look.'
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- EXPANSION UNIT: The new room you have to build on to your home to house
- your computer and all its peripherals.
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- FILE: What your secretary can do to her nails six and a half hours
- a day, now that the computer does her day's work in 30 minutes.
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- FLOPPY: The condition of a constant computer user's stomach due to
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- FILE: What your secretary can do to her nails six and a half hours
- a day, now that the computer does her day's work in 30 minutes.
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- FLOPPY: The condition of a constant computer user's stomach due to
- lack of exercise and a steady diet of junk food. (See Chips).
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- HARDWARE: Tools, such as lawnmowers, rakes ano other heave equipment
- you haven't laid a finger on since getting your computer.
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- AMIGA: The kind of missile your family would like to drop on you so that
- you'll pay attention to them again.
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- MENU: What you'll never see again after buying your computer, since
- you'll be to poor to eat in a restaurant.
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- MONITOR: Often thought to be a word associated with computers, this word
- actually refers to those obnoxious kids who always want
- to see you hall pass at school.
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- PROGRAMS: Those things you used to look at on your television screen
- before you hooked you computer up to it.
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- RAM: What you do the side of you computer when it's not working properly.
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- RETURN: What lot of people do to their computers after only a week and a half.
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- TERMINAL: A place where you can find buses, trains, and really good deals
- on hot computers.
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- WINDOW: What you heave the computer out of when you accidentally erase
- a program that took you three days to set up.
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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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