| ACCESS | A large painful boil on the chips from distant hacking.
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| ANSI | A hacker who can't sit still.
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| ARRAY | Hacker's spontaneous exclamation when something works for a change. Rarely used.
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| ASCII | The key to your girlfriend's apartment.
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| BASIC | Something so simple you need a computer to understand it.
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BAUD RATE | Fee charged by loose women; usually $500 and up.
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| BI-DIRECTIONAL | A computer who swings both ways.
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| BUFFER | A nude hacker.
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| BYTE | Short for "BUY IT", usually in reference to peripherals.
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| CURSOR | A hacker on his way home from the computer store.
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DEDICATED WORD PROCESSOR | A secretary who stays after 5:00.
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DISK DRIVE | A popular street in Cupertino.
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DOUBLE DENSITY | Really dumb.
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ELECTRONIC MAIL | The only kind delivered in less than a week.
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EXPANSION SLOTS | The extra holes in your belt.
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FATAL BUG | To have a Volkswagon drop on you.
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FLOPPY DISK | Serious curvature of the spine.
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HEAD CRASH | A collision with a Port-A-Potty.
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| HOLOGRAM | Greeting from an elderly woman.
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INTEGRATED CIRCUIT | An electric bus with randomly seated black chips.
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| INTERPRETER | Someone you take with you to the computer store so you can
understand the salesman; usually a 12 year old.
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KEY PAD | An apartment with a lock.
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KEY WORD | "Your place or mine?"
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MACHINE LANGUAGE | "Zoom," "Putt-Putt," "Chugga-chugga," "Whirr," etc.
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| MEMORY | Where data is placed prior to losing it.
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| MENU | An itemized list of ways to make a mistake on a computer.
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| NETWORK | What a fisherman does when he's not fishing.
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OFFICE INFORMATION SYSTEM | The word processor who knows the most gossip.
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| OHM | Where the 'eart is!
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OUTPUT DEVICE | A Word processor who can't say "NO!"
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PLASMA DISPLAY | A bloody nose.
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| PROGRAM | A random collection of bugs.
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READ/WRITE HEAD | Men's room with a graffiti wall.
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RUNNING HEAD | One which needs the handle jiggled.
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| SILICON | A foolish prisoner.
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| SKEW | Interface between consenting computers.
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| SKEW FAILURE | Premature calculation.
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| SOFTWARE | What hackers wear under their hardware.
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SOFTWARE STORE | Frederick's of Hollywood.
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STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE | The way nobody does it.
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| TAPE PUNCH | A non-alcoholic drink that comes in a roll and sticks to your
fingers.
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| TELEPACK | A brewery that delivers.
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TERMINAL INTELLIGENCE | To be so smart it kills you!
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