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.


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