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