Computer Acronyms Defined

APPLE -- "Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity"

BASIC -- "Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control"

CD-ROM -- "Consumer Device - Rendered Obsolete in Months"

DEC -- "Do Expect Cuts"

DOS -- "Defunct Operating System"

OS/2 -- "Obsolete Soon, Too"

IBM -- "I Blame Microsoft"

ISDN -- "It Still Does Nothing"

MACINTOSH -- "Most Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating System Hangs"

PCMCIA -- "People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms"

SCSI -- "System Can't See It"

WWW -- "World Wide Wait"
 

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