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Since computers have been invented, a few words have been recycled, but many created, some of which are quite amusing.
So, what would you say is the best?
SCSI is quite a good one to pronounce, but not that funny.
My fav: dongle!
Oh, the innuendo opportunities!
ZX81 machine code was pretty funny cos it used the terms "peek" and "poke" a lot - that always raised a smile on my 14-year-old face at the time :D
RAM :D
:o
Sorry.
Floppy ;)
Good heavens. How vulgar.
Were peek and poke anything to do with the CPU stack?
Backside cache ;)
eh...
Hard-Drive :cool:
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Originally posted by TomWilko
eh...
Hard-Drive :cool:
LMFAO!!!! Good grief.
Warning...This thread brings out the most immature in everybody... :o
I remember in the heydays of dongles, you could buy a short extension cable to prevent stress on the printer port.
They called it a dongle dangler...
lol @ rhythmic... i saw a wireless usb dongle on ebuyer, made me chuckle, i think dongle has to be the funniest computer word at the moment :)
Mouse balls :D
erm....twas something to do with variables within reserved memory iirc (it was about 20 years ago....& i never quite mastered it!)Quote:
Originally posted by unts
Were peek and poke anything to do with the CPU stack?
dongle looks to be the favourite so far
RAM and floppy are still good tho
[beavis & butthead mode]
hur hur..huur....floppy!...hurr...hurr....dongle!
[/beavis & butthead mode]
And if it gets dirty you have to fiddle with it as well.Quote:
Originally posted by MiggyMan
Mouse balls :D
/gets coat.
3.5" Floppy . . . and it doesnt grow when it goes Hard :p
See, it's not size that counts.
Yup thats why the 5 1/4" are obselete
old classic
im off for a quick defrag of my hard drive..
Naaa - they're my brother's cats :DQuote:
Originally posted by unts
Were peek and poke anything to do with the CPU stack?
He's got one called Velcro too :)
hehe. its kinda different but im such a geek and Knox and ste and wiffle are witnesses to this. I came out with
didnt even realise. meh....Quote:
Im gonna download this pint now
I like dongle, Chomp and Nibble are cool words too.
edit: GOOGLE, what a cool word.
it is true he said that, n then when i spilled mine the classic words
"input output error"
:)
lmao. that was a good night. and then the next famous comment was "buffer over run". "you need more bandwidth to drink at that rate".
I had a somewhat memorable CompSci lesson at school years ago. I really needed to go to the toilet and drop the kids off at the pool, but the toilets in my school were uber skanky, so I decided to strap in and wait till I got home.
Anyway, sat down for the lesson which was all about backing up data. We learning about periodic dumping, incremental dumping, and just about ever other kind of dumping. Whenever I hear someone say "take a dump" of this or that I have a little snigger :D
hmmm.. just to change the subject to acronyms for a moment..
People Cannot Memorise Complicated Industry Acronyms (PCMCIA)
TWAIN - Thing Without An Interesting Name
Please Insert Your Floppy Dick
i mean disk. :D
Would you like to shave off a few mb's on your hard drive?
I think "Dongle" gets my vote :D Altho Floppy comes in at a close seccond...!
Jack Input....hehehe, and i aint even called jack, lol. dongle gets my vote tho.
nibble is a brilliant computer term tbh
JBOD - Just a Bunch Of Discs
When you need a converter to go from a male to female plug - Gender Bender
GIGO - Garbage In , Garbage Out
I thought it was Technology Without An Important Name. Fairly close, either way.Quote:
Originally posted by gss03
TWAIN - Thing Without An Interesting Name
Yeah, I'm with eldren on the TWAIN issue.
I just love how you can load your TWAIN Driver, lol!
Floppy and Hard Dicks :-)
Some of you may have heard of this before:
The Motorola 6809 microprocessor, as used in the Tandy Color Computer, had a sign extend instruction; the assembly language mnemonic for which was, reasonably enough, SEX. DEC's engineers nearly got a PDP-11 assembler that used the SEX mnemonic out the door at one time, but (for once) marketing wasn't asleep and forced a change. That wasn't the last time this happened, either. The author of "The Intel 8086 Primer", who was one of the original designers of the 8086, noted that there was originally a SEX instruction on that processor, too. He says that Intel management got cold feet and decreed that it be changed, and thus the instruction was renamed CBW and CWD (depending on what was being extended). Amusingly, the Intel 8048 (the microcontroller used in IBM PC keyboards) is also missing straight SEX but has logical-or and logical-and instructions ORL and ANL.
I remember SEX now - back from writing assembly lanugage on a 6809 copro for a BBC.
Just after I played with an 8" floppy :)
Did not want to start a whole new thread......
I found that really disturbing:
Quality Control
whaddya say ?
lmao
WINDOWS
Should have called it DOORS imo tho
Microsoft is actually an acronym I'm told....
Stands for:
Most Intelligent Customers Realise Our Software Only Fools Teenagers....
LMAO! good picture p0lish. Took me a while to realise what it was...then it struck me :)
Will
Thanx m8 !Quote:
Originally posted by blockers
LMAO! good picture p0lish. Took me a while to realise what it was...then it struck me :)
Will
Finally a comment other than old ..... or saw that already....
saw that already :P. Nah. Very funny. some people can be so stupid.
Intresting about the SEX in assembler
LDA R1, "Your face"
LDA R2, "My fist"
MOV R1, R2
STO R1
Meh. I whish I knew assembler. Prolly gonna try n teach my self one of these days. any one know any good guides to teach you a generalised version or specific to AMD DURON processors?
Didnt wanna start a new thread to ask.
molex hehe dunno if thats the rite spelling
mooollllleee *pokes mole with a stick*
That isnt funny at all
Not as funny as a "hard copy on a floppy" :P
Microsoft...
I guess it reflects some of the founder's (or founders') attributes - 'micro' and 'soft'... :rolleyes: :P
i know people why refer to the PS/2 to USB (and all the others) as gender benders. I quite like that, although dongle is good lol.
Good job I know what your really talking about.Quote:
I played with an 8" floppy