Odd saying's to remember technical terms.

[Shintaro]

I was just thinking about the use of odd sayings to remember technical terms.

EMS (Expanded Memory System) = My waistline is expanding sideways. Because the 16K pages kind of expand (memory above the 640K, but below the 1M mark) sideways.
XMS (Extended Memory System) = I wish I could be taller (extend) myself to be 6 Feet tall. (Once upon a time, the minimum height for the Police was 5 feet 9 inches, which is my height)

PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) = I prefer "People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms"

Electronics resistors band colour values = Betty Brown Ran Over Yellow Grass But Violet Grey Walked. I think some of the older telco techs had much more memorable ones.

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This one is the pick.

> PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) = I prefer "People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms"

[Shintaro]

Ah, I just remembered one.
Customer: "What was the fault?"
Tech: "It was the ID 10 T fault." Say: ID ten T (ID10T)
Cruel, but accurate.

[NoCforMe]

Electronics resistors band colour values = Betty Brown Ran Over Yellow Grass But Violet Grey Walked.

Heh; speaking of resistors, for some reason yellow-violet-XXX (47 ohms x something) sticks in my mind. 47KΩ seems so ... electonic-y. I've got a few common values memorized just from fishing around in my resistor pile: brown-black (10), red-red (22), orange-orange (33).

[daydreamer]

Emacs = eight megabytes constantly swapping
In the east block was far away in computer technology in old DDR
So one joke is when DDR memory came in germany they dont want to buy it
 

[Shintaro]

Emacs = eight megabytes constantly swapping

Nice!
LISP (Lots of Insane Silly Parentheses )

[zedd151]

Electronics resistors band colour values = Betty Brown Ran Over Yellow Grass But Violet Grey Walked.

Heh; speaking of resistors, for some reason yellow-violet-XXX (47 ohms x something) sticks in my mind. 47KΩ seems so ... electonic-y. I've got a few common values memorized just from fishing around in my resistor pile: brown-black (10), red-red (22), orange-orange (33).

ROY G. BIV is in there almost, excluding indigo. 
Gotta love Isaac Newton