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- Advanced User: A person who has managed to remove a computer from its
- packing material.
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- Power User: A person who has mastered the brightness and contrast
- controls on any computer's monitor.
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- American-Made: Assembled in America from parts made abroad.
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- Alpha Test Version: Too buggy to be released to the paying public.
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- Beta Test Version: Still too buggy to be released.
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- Release Version: Alternate pronunciation of "beta test version".
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- Sales Manager: Last week's new sales associate.
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- Consultant: A former sales associate who has mastered at least one-tenth
- of the dBase III Plus manual.
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- Backup: The duplicate copy of crucial data that no one bothered to make;
- used only in an abstract sense.
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- Clone: One of the many advanced-technology computers IBM is beginning to
- wish they had built.
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- Convertible: Transformable from a second-rate computer to a first-rate
- doorstop or paperweight. (Lexical note: replaces the term
- "junior".)
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- Copy Protection: A clever method of preventing incompetent pirates from
- stealing software and legitimate customers from using it.
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- Encryption: A powerful alorithimic encoding technique employed in the
- creation of computer manuals.
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- FCC-Certified: Guaranteed not to interfere with radio or television
- reception until you add the cable that is required to
- make it work.
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- Hard Disk: A device that allows users to delete vast quantities of data
- with simple mnemonic commands.
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- Laptop: Smaller and lighter then the average breadbox.
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- Portable: Smaller and lighter than the average refrigerator.
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- Support: The mailing of advertising literature to customers who have
- returned a registration card.
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- Printer: An electromechanical paper-shreading device.
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- Spreadsheet: A program that gives the user quick and easy access to a
- wide variety of highly detailed reports based on highly
- inaccurate assumptions.
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- Upgraded: Didn't work the first time.
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- User Friendly: Supplied with a full-color manual.
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- Very User Friendly: Supplied with a disk and audiotape so the user need
- not bother with the full-color manual.
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- Version 1.0: Buggier than May in June; eats data.Version 1.1: Eats data only occasionally; upgrade is free, to avoid
- litigation by disgruntled users of Version 1.0.
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- Version 2.0: The version origanlly planned as the first release, except
- for a couple of data eating bugs that just won't seem to go
- away; no free upgrades or the company would go bankrupt.
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- Version 3.0: The revision in the works when the company goes bankrupt.
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- Warranty: Disclaimer
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