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• The CD ROM is write and read protected. We do not have a CD ROM Drive. -- dan amongst the use
• Please insert the floppy disk labeled Windows NT Installation CD-ROM into Drive A:.
• maximum Maytag mode n. What a washing machine or, by extension, any disk drive is in when it's being used so heavily that it's shaking like an old Maytag with an unbalanced load.
  If prolonged for any length of time, can lead to disks becoming walking drives....
• ip v. 1. To extract the digital representation of a piece of music from an audio CD.
  Software that does this is often called a "CD ripper"....
• Now on CD ROM, classic taglines of the computer era.
• hell [orig. Multics n. techspeak, widely propagated via Unix] 1.
  [techspeak] The command interpreter used to pass commands to an operating system...
• boot v.,n. [techspeak; from `by one's bootstraps'] To load and initialize the operating system on a machine.
  This usage is no longer jargon (having passed into techspeak) but has given rise to some derivatives that are still jargon....
• I bought a battery holder, it's called a diskman.
• When I sell liquor, its called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, its called hospitality.
  -- Al Capone...