What Those Acronyms Really Mean
Jan 7, 2022 10:03:29 #
ISDN = It Still Does Nothing
APPLE = Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity
IBM = I Blame Microsoft
DEC = Do Expect Cuts
CA = Constant Acquisitions
CD-ROM = Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months
OS/2 = Obsolete Soon, Too.
SCSI = System Can't See It
DOS = Defunct Operating System
BASIC = Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control
WWW = World Wide Wait
MACINTOSH = Most Applications Crash; If Not, The OS Hangs
APPLE = Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity
IBM = I Blame Microsoft
DEC = Do Expect Cuts
CA = Constant Acquisitions
CD-ROM = Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months
OS/2 = Obsolete Soon, Too.
SCSI = System Can't See It
DOS = Defunct Operating System
BASIC = Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control
WWW = World Wide Wait
MACINTOSH = Most Applications Crash; If Not, The OS Hangs
Jan 7, 2022 10:16:31 #
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Jan 7, 2022 11:09:24 #
Kraken wrote:
ISDN = It Still Does Nothing
APPLE = Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity
IBM = I Blame Microsoft
DEC = Do Expect Cuts
CA = Constant Acquisitions
CD-ROM = Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months
OS/2 = Obsolete Soon, Too.
SCSI = System Can't See It
DOS = Defunct Operating System
BASIC = Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control
WWW = World Wide Wait
MACINTOSH = Most Applications Crash; If Not, The OS Hangs
APPLE = Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity
IBM = I Blame Microsoft
DEC = Do Expect Cuts
CA = Constant Acquisitions
CD-ROM = Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months
OS/2 = Obsolete Soon, Too.
SCSI = System Can't See It
DOS = Defunct Operating System
BASIC = Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control
WWW = World Wide Wait
MACINTOSH = Most Applications Crash; If Not, The OS Hangs
Look accurate to me... good job. However, I still use DOS daily... not from the keyboard so much but as an environment to run scripts.
Jan 8, 2022 05:42:25 #
Kraken wrote:
ISDN = It Still Does Nothing
APPLE = Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity
IBM = I Blame Microsoft
DEC = Do Expect Cuts
CA = Constant Acquisitions
CD-ROM = Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months
OS/2 = Obsolete Soon, Too.
SCSI = System Can't See It
DOS = Defunct Operating System
BASIC = Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control
WWW = World Wide Wait
MACINTOSH = Most Applications Crash; If Not, The OS Hangs
APPLE = Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity
IBM = I Blame Microsoft
DEC = Do Expect Cuts
CA = Constant Acquisitions
CD-ROM = Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months
OS/2 = Obsolete Soon, Too.
SCSI = System Can't See It
DOS = Defunct Operating System
BASIC = Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control
WWW = World Wide Wait
MACINTOSH = Most Applications Crash; If Not, The OS Hangs
Good laugh 😃 😀 😄
Jan 8, 2022 05:56:29 #
alawry
Loc: Timaru New Zealand
Like a lot of you, having lived thru the day of MSDOS, OS/2, BASIC etc, I appreciate the humour but these things were good in their day. What about CP/M?
Down here our country's (New Zealand) nation weather office goes by NIWA, for National Institute of Water and Atmospheric research. The weather forecasting is a fickle science, most of us claim NIWA stands for "No Idea What's Ahead" Gotta love Acronyms.
Down here our country's (New Zealand) nation weather office goes by NIWA, for National Institute of Water and Atmospheric research. The weather forecasting is a fickle science, most of us claim NIWA stands for "No Idea What's Ahead" Gotta love Acronyms.
Jan 8, 2022 06:40:11 #
alawry wrote:
Like a lot of you, having lived thru the day of MSDOS, OS/2, BASIC etc, I appreciate the humour but these things were good in their day. What about CP/M?
Down here our country's (New Zealand) nation weather office goes by NIWA, for National Institute of Water and Atmospheric research. The weather forecasting is a fickle science, most of us claim NIWA stands for "No Idea What's Ahead" Gotta love Acronyms.
Down here our country's (New Zealand) nation weather office goes by NIWA, for National Institute of Water and Atmospheric research. The weather forecasting is a fickle science, most of us claim NIWA stands for "No Idea What's Ahead" Gotta love Acronyms.
Jan 8, 2022 08:15:48 #
alawry wrote:
Like a lot of you, having lived thru the day of MSDOS, OS/2, BASIC etc, I appreciate the humour but these things were good in their day. What about CP/M?
Down here our country's (New Zealand) nation weather office goes by NIWA, for National Institute of Water and Atmospheric research. The weather forecasting is a fickle science, most of us claim NIWA stands for "No Idea What's Ahead" Gotta love Acronyms.
Down here our country's (New Zealand) nation weather office goes by NIWA, for National Institute of Water and Atmospheric research. The weather forecasting is a fickle science, most of us claim NIWA stands for "No Idea What's Ahead" Gotta love Acronyms.
THAT is a good one!
Jan 8, 2022 08:40:37 #
Jan 8, 2022 11:36:40 #
And of course, there are the IT standbys - GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) and PBKAC (problem between keyboard and chair)
Jan 8, 2022 11:38:55 #
TriX wrote:
And of course, there are the IT standbys - GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) and PBKAC (problem between keyboard and chair)
Jan 8, 2022 12:21:46 #
TriX wrote:
And of course, there are the IT standbys - GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) and PBKAC (problem between keyboard and chair)
In some cases GIGO (garbage in gospel out).
Jan 8, 2022 12:22:51 #
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