                      COMPUTER DICTIONARY

	  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!
 
 
     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 sacrificed.
     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'.
     Initialize - Carving your initials on a floppy disk.
     Iterate	- A healthy illiterate.
     Joystick	- A peripheral intended for use only by consenting
		  adults.
     Keyboard	- Resembling a typewriter, 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.
