| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
True meanings:
Adaptive Equalization - Busing
Asynch - A place to wash dishes
Automatic calling unit - Teenager with a telephone
Bisynch - Farewell to the dish-washing place
Bit - Twelve and a half cents
Bit Rate - How often you are bitten
Byte Rate - How fast you can eat
Envelope Delay - The U. S. Postal Service
Full Duplex - No vacancies
Hollerith - What thou doest when thy phone is
on the fritzeth
Kilocycle - Capital punishment for a bike
Microwave - Signal from a friendly micro
Milliamp - Mrs. Amp's daughter
Modem - How a Southerner asks for seconds
Semiconductor - Part time band leader
(These are taken <without permission> from MSD News.
Please reply if there is a note with more of these.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 259.1 | DECWET::SHUSTER | Red Sox Addition: 1986 = 1975 + 1 | Wed Oct 15 1986 12:59 | 2 | |
Gate Array - The green stuff an engineer drinks
for quick energy
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| 259.2 | More | EUCLID::LEVASSEUR | Like A Poorly Drawn Cartoon | Wed Oct 15 1986 13:54 | 6 |
Floppy Disk - A bad lower back condition
Pascal - A green leafy vegetacle
Microchips - What a herd of micros leave behind
Write locked- Writer's cramp
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