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A Grandchild's Guide to Using Grandpa's Computer
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Bits Bytes Chips Clocks
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Bits in bytes on chips in box.
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Bytes with bits and chips with clocks.
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Chips in box on ether-docks.
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Chips with bits come. Chips with bytes come.
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Chips with bits and bytes and clocks come.
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Look, sir. Look, sir. Read the book, sir.
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Let's do tricks with bits and bytes, sir.
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Let's do tricks with chips and clocks, sir.
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First, I'll make a quick trick bit stack.
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Then I'll make a quick trick byte stack.
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You can make a quick trick chip stack.
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You can make a quick trick clock stack.
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And here's a new trick on the scene.
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Bits in bytes for your machine.
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Bytes in words to fill your screen.
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Now we come to ticks and tocks, sir.
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Try to say this by the clock, sir.
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Clocks on chips tick.
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Clocks on chips tock.
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Eight byte bits tick.
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Eight bit bytes tock.
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Clocks on chips with eight bit bytes tick.
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Chips with clocks and eight byte bits tock.
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Here's an easy game to play.
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Here's an easy thing to say....
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If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
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and the bus is interupted as a very last resort,
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and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort
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then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!
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If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
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and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
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and your data is corrupted cause the index doesn't hash,
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then your situation's hopeless, and your system's gonna crash!
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You can't say this? What a shame, sir!
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We'll find you another game, sir.
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If the label on the cable on the table at your house
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says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
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but your packets want to tunnel on another protocol,
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that's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
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and your screen is all distorted by the side-effects of gauss,
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so your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
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then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
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cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!
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When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk,
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and the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risc,
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then you have to flash your memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM.
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Quickly turn off your computer and be sure to tell your mom!
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(God bless you Dr. Seuss wherever you are!)
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