The following ditty was written by two parttime DJs at a
	radio station in Yellow Springs, Ohio, who were kind
	enough to place it in the public domain. It comes
	to you from PC Age.

			16 BITS

			  by

		Tony Williams and Bill Mulert

		(Sung to the tune of "16 Tons")

	Some people say computers are made outta chips,
	Digital logic and binary bits.
	Takes a technical jerk to wanna make it run,
	So I went to computer-mart and bought myself one.

	(Chorus)
	Ya load 16 bits, and whattya get?
	64K and a floppy diskette.
	At $1200 it's surely inane,
	You get a biorhythm chart and a video game.

	I was born one morning in a software mine,
	I picked up my keybord and a entered a line.
	I loaded some BASIC, I loaded FORTRAN,
	But nothing I loaded into COBOL ran.

	(Chorus)
	Ya load 16 bits, and whattya get?
	64K and a floppy diskette.
	IBM don't ya call me 'cause I gotta regroup,
	I'm stuck right now in an infinite loop.

	Well, I sat at the keybord with the Programmer's Itch,
	But everything I entered ran into a glitch.
	I messed up ma memory, ma register gates,
	Made me want to fold, spindle and mutilate.

	(Chorus)
	Ya load 16 bits, and whattya get?
	64K and a floppy diskette.
	IBM don't ya call me 'cause I gotta regroup,
	I'm stuck right now in an infinite loop.

	I got a serial modem with dual disk packs,
	The house I once owned is now Radio Shack's.
	Thirty I/O ports to do as ya will,
	If the price don't get ya then the light bill will.

	(Chorus)
	Ya load 16 bits, and whattya get?
	64K and a floppy diskette.
	At $1200 it's surely inane,
	You get a biorhythm chart and a video game.