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^CMore Snippets
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^CDefinitions that aren't (but should be) in  a technical dictionary.

RESOLUTION - What you need to purchase a $3,000.00 computer that you know will be obsolete before you finish paying for it.

READ ONLY MEMORY - Memory that is so expensive you can only read about it.

MULTI-MEDIA - Reading the newspaper while watching cartoons on television and listening to Rush Limbaugh on the radio.

MONITOR - What your boss is probably doing to your network e-mail messages.

NET-WORK - What Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul Jabaar and Michael Jordan are famous for.

MOUSE PAD - Where Mickey takes Minnie after the cartoon is over. 

RAM-CACHE - Money you spend to increase your computer's memory capacity.

MEMORY CHIPS - Available in barbecue, sour cream and onion, and the ever popular regular flavor.

DIP SWITCH - When someone replaces your onion dip with that cheap bean dip everyone hates.

STATIC RAM - Memory chips that  just sit in a drawer somewhere because they aren't compatible with your latest upgrade.

HARD DRIVE - The 460 yard par 4 17th hole at Pebble Beach.

ARCHIVE - A nest of buzzing stinging arcs.

ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE - The language used to describe how to put bicycles, swing sets and other large objects together.  Probably a derivative of non-linear B, which has never been translated to English.

BACKUP - What your spouse makes you do when you stop in front of the computer shop.

^CWords that should be in the dictionary but aren't.

KEYBORED -  That lazy feeling you get  after three hours of retyping your company's quarterly report.

MOUSE-CLIQUE - Uppity computer users who brag about  their mouse-compatible computers.

MEGA-BITE - The chunk of money removed from your wallet when you bought your computer.

PRO-GRAM - A grandmother who has renounced her amateur status.

AUTOMATRON - A programmable grandmother.