Glossary of Computer Terms

  • 640K barrier — the finish line in a mega-marathon
  • access time — foreplay
  • analog — what Ana tosses into the fire
  • assembly language — put tab A into slot B, then put tab C…
  • audit trail — what the IRS does
  • Bandwidth — limited by the size of the stage
  • BBS — going in reverse in a golf cart
  • benchmark — t-telling t-tall s-stories 
  • Battery Backup — what happens when your saw hits the bench
  • broadband — an all female rock group
  • cache memory — remembering how much you spent
  • carrier detect — “I see the mail man!”
  • CASE — 24 bottles
  • Control Character — prison guard
  • conventional memory — remembering what you did at COMDEX
  • copy protection — wearing a rubber
  • copyright — vs. copy wrong
  • cursor — a garbage mouth
  • daisy chain — a dog’s leash
  • DAT — the opposite of DIS
  • deadly embrace — making love to King Kong
  • delimiter — some who says, “Stop, that’s enough”
  • density — how to measure IQs of blondes
  • dhrystones — the stones that were tossed out of the water
  • DIP switch — how my sister gets a new boy friend
  • dot pitch — “Dorothy winds ups, and delivers a knuckle ball”
  • EDCDIC — similar to herpes
  • EMS — happens just before PMS
  • end user — a prisoner’s cell mate
  • escape sequence — Distract guard. Dig tunnel. Cut through fence…
  • Ethernet — used to catch Ether
  • fixed disk — a broken disk that comes back from the shop
  • flash EPROM — what they have on 90210 (Flashy Proms)
  • flat bed scanner — a hooker looking for loose change
  • flat file — a file with all the air out of it
  • full duplex — a 2-family house with 16 occupants
  • groupware — clothes swapping
  • hacker — a heavy smoker
  • half-height drive — a midget’s sexual capacity
  • hand scanner — singles bar prowler looking for wedding rings
  • heap — what I drive
  • high density diskette — a very stupid floppy
  • home computer — what you tell your computer when it follows you
  • hypertext — text on amphetamines
  • ink jet — a plan used for sky writing
  • integrated circuit —
    a circuit with black & white components
  • joystick — (requires little explanation)
  • local bus — stops at every intersection
  • lost chains — euphoria experienced by the recently divorced
  • low-level language — for basement programmers
  • high-level language — for penthouse programmers
  • machine dependency — an affliction of machine users
  • mag tape — tape used on the wheels of cars
  • mainframe — akin to “main squeeze”
  • main memory — remembering where the water line is
  • math coprocessor — the person you cheated from in math class
  • megaflop — the worst play you ever saw
  • minicomputer — the mate to Mickey’s computer
  • modem — what the gardener did to the lawns
  • multi-sync — can be sunk more than once
  • native mode — head hunting
  • on-line — where the birds sit
  • overlay — chickens making too many eggs
  • pentium — the thing that swings back-and-forth on a clock
  • plotter — a deceitful person
  • postscript — grafitti on a pole
  • protected memory — remembering to wear a condom
  • record locking — what you do to your Beatles White Album
  • right justified — vs. wrong justified
  • software piracy — stealing a ship’s program
  • spreadsheet — a hooker’s foreplay
  • streaming tape — party decorations
  • subroutine — not quite routine
  • surge protector — a condom
  • token ring — a group of people passing the bong
  • trackball — what sprinters and runners often get
  • twisted pair — tubes tied
  • word wrap — black music
  • worksheet — a prostitute’s office
  • Ymodem — because, modem