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A FARMER'S GUIDE TO COMPUTERS ============================= BATCH - A 'Whole Lot' like the batch of biscuits my wife bakes for breakfast. BIT - The part of the bridle that goes in the horse's mouth. BYTE - What the horse might try to do when you put the bit in its mouth. CALLING SEQUENCE - Rules for a Hollerin' Contest. CHARACTER - Wendell Smith up the road. He could make a dog laugh. CHIP - My son. My wife says he's off the old block! CONVERSION - What happens to some folks at our Spring Revival. DEBUG - Picking beetles off plants and dropping them into a can of kerosene. DEBUGGING AIDS - Grandchildren. DISKETTE - What you do to a field after you plow it. DOCUMENTATION - What the Vet does. ECHO CHECK - Hollerin' twice from the same place. FIXED FIELD - It's ready to plant. GARBAGE - I haul it off myself. INPUT - Labor, seed, and fertilizer. JOB STACKING - Working in the hayfield. KEYBOARD - The beam above the kitchen door where we keep the keys. MAIN MEMORY - My wife's - She never forgets anything. MENU - It all depends on what's in season. MODEM - What I did with my oats before Job Stacking. OUTPUT - Crop from my 'Input'. RAM - Ramses Rogers down the road. Drives a red pickup. ROM - Ram's twin brother. He drives a red pickup too. Can't tell 'em apart execpt for their mufflers. SECONDARY MEMORY - My dad's. If my wife can't remember it, my dad can. He'll be 93 next month!!

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