OUTPUT DEVICES

COMPUTER TERMS

* COPY - What you have to do during school tests because you spend too much time at the computer and not enough time studying. * MONITOR - Often thought to be a word associated with computers, this word actually refers to those kids who always want to see your hall pass at school. * INPUT/OUTPUT - Information is input from the keyboard as intelligible data and output to the printer as unrecognizable junk. * PRINTER - A joke in poor taste. A printer consists of three main parts: The case, the jammed paper tray, and the blinking red light.

A confused caller to IBM was having trouble printing documents. He told the technician that the computer had said it "couldn't find printer." The user had also tried turning the computer screen to face the printer-but that his computer still couldn't "see" the printer.

A woman called the Canon help desk with a problem with her printer. The tech asked her if she was "running it under windows. "The woman responded, "No, my desk is next to the door. But that is a good point. The man sitting in the cubicle next to me is under a window and his printer is working fine."

MURPHY’S COMPUTER LAWS

· Any VDU, from the cheapest to the most expensive, will protect a twenty cent fuse by blowing first.

· The faster you need a hardcopy, the more people will be using the only office printer.