A Grandchild's Guide to Using Grandpa's Computer | |||
Bits Bytes Chips Clocks Bits in bytes on chips in box. Bytes with bits and chips with clocks. Chips in box on ether-docks.
Chips with bits come. Chips with bytes come.
Look, sir. Look, sir. read the book, sir.
First, I'll make a quick trick bit stack.
And here's a new trick on the scene. Now we come to ticks and tocks, sir.
Clocks on chips tick. |
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Here's an easy game to play. Here's an easy thing to say.... If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!
If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, You can't say this? What a shame, sir!
If the label on the cable on the table at your house
When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk, |
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Illustrations by Mary Hamilton |
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