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Family RVing Magazine

Computer Terms For RVers

April 1, 2003

You might not be a savvy RVer if you think the following definitions are accurate:
By Gail Ault, F106024
March 2003

Backup: Happens when you forget to empty the holding tank

Byte: What could happen if loose animals at the campground are surprised

CD: What you used to pay for your new motorhome

Chip: Munchies to eat at the campfire

Compress:
Something you do to garbage

Computer: Keeps the savvy RVer in touch

Crash: What could happen when the copilot gives inaccurate directions

Dot matrix: Danny Matrix’s wife

Enter: Northern slang for the Southern “C’mon in, y’all”

Floppy disk: A loose hubcap

Hard drive
: Any day trip longer than 250 miles

Keyboard: Place with hooks where you hang your assortment of keys

Laptop: Where the grandchildren like to cuddle up

Log on: Tossing another log on the campfire

Mainframe: The steel frame your motorhome body is bolted to

Megahertz:
When one of the basement doors drops on your head

Memory: Something you lose with age

Microchip:
What’s left in the munchie bag

Modem:
What the grounds crew at the campground did with the blades of grass

Monitor: Rear camera necessary for backing up that big coach

Mouse: A critter that finds holes the factory promised didn’t exist

Net: Something a woman puts on her head to preserve her hairdo

Port:
Red wine

Prompt:
What the wait at a one-dump station is not

RAM: Cousin of a goat

Screen: Should come with the windows

Software:
Tissues, toilet paper, and paper plates

Virus:
The flu

Web:
A spider’s home and a motorhome wife’s nemesis

Windows:
Something you want plenty of even though you hate to clean them

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