Ateklabs.1131 net.jokes,net.micro utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:CAD:teklabs!paulh Thu Apr 1 08:03:25 1982 Computer-oriented songs The following piece was written by two part time DJ's at a radio station in Yellow Springs, Ohio. They have been kind enough to place it in the public domain. 16 BITS by Tony Williams & Bill Mulert (sung to the tune of 16 Tons) Some people say computers are made outta chips, Digital logic and binary bits. Takes a technical jerk to wanna make it run, So I went to computer-mart and bought myself one. Ya load 16 bits, and whattya get ? 64K and a floppy diskette. At $1200 it's surely inane, You get a Biorhythym chart and a video game. I was born one morning in a software mine, I picked up my keyboard and I entered a line. I loaded some BASIC, I loaded FORTRAN, But nothing I loaded into COBOL ran. Cho: Ya load 16 bits, and whattya get ? 64K and a floppy diskette. IBM don't ya call me 'cause I gotta regroup, I'm stuck right now in an infinite loop. Well, I sat at the keyboard with the Programmer's Itch, But everything I entered ran into a glitch. I messed up ma memory, ma register gates, Made me wanta fold, spindle, and mutilate. Cho. I got a serial modem with dual disk packs, The house I once owned is now Radio Shack's. 30 I/O ports to do as ya will, If the price don't get ya then the light bill will. Cho. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.