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Humour the computer / edited by Andrew Davison.
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Book
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English
Published/Created
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1995.
Description
xvi, 226 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Forrestal Annex - A
PN6231.E4 H86 1995
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Summary note
You don't have to have a degree in computer science to enjoy this unique collection of funny stories, parodies, laughable true-life incidents, comic song lyrics, and jokey poems from the world of computing. Humour the Computer brings together a selection of some of the best computer-related, humorous material culled from a variety of sources: news groups and FTP sites on the Internet, The New Yorker, Punch, New Scientist, BYTE, Datamation, Communications of the ACM, The Journal of Irreproducible Results, and many more. Among other topics, the 70-odd assorted writings embrace the impact of computing on our lives, hilarious hardware, silly software, first encounters with computing, computer companies that we love, programming pains, and absurd academia.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-226).
Contents
Moby Dick 2.1 / Kenneth M. Sheldon
A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers / David Waitzman
A Problem in the Making / Darryl Rubin
How I Bought My First Computer / Larry R. Custead
BOFH (Part 1) / Simon Travaglia
The Generic Word Processor / Philip Schrodt
Natural Upgrade Path / Christopher Lishka
The Case of the Bogus Expert (Part 1) / Kris Hammond
Ordinary People Tell How They Use Their Personal Computers / Lucinda Luongo
I am the Very Model of a Genius Computational / Jonathan R. Partington
Zork, RAMS and the Curse of Ra: Computo, ergo sum / Curt Suplee
Laptop in Colombo puts Campbell in the Soup / Lai See
Masters of Computer Science / Lindsay Marshall.
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ISBN
0262540754
9780262540759
LCCN
95003065
OCLC
31865749
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