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COMPUTER LINGO

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(by A4422DAE at AWIUNI11)

 

6502 The year you will pay off your computer...

BASIC A programming language used to generate errors.

CPU C3PO's mother

CRASH Normal termination of a program

CASSETTE DRIVE Used as paper weight after buying a floppy disk drive.

EPROM Acronym for "Exit Program, Read Owners Manual".

DIM ARRAY Stupid storage

GOSUB Very fast U-Boat

GIGO "Garbage in, Garbage out", Normal result of computer programs.

INPUT Statement that refuses all entries

KEYBOARD Random arrangement of letters

LED Long Expected Defect

MAGAZINE PROGRAM Typesetters error trap

NULL STRING Normal result of a seven hour sort.

PROGRAMMER Knows the location of the on/off switch

RESET Another way to terminate a four hour sort

RS232 R2D2's father

SUBROUTINE Section of a program that cannot be accessed

TERMINAL Mental state of most programmers

WAIT WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT TO DO ???????????