It's been nearly two years since the last revision, and quite a lot of new songs have arrived in the meantime (manythanx to all who contributed!), so it's definitely time for a new edition of... COMPUTER SONGS AND POEMS =========== ------06-Aug-1994------- (Song and poem parodies with computer related subjects) collected & reformatted by Stefan Haenssgen The entries are formatted as follows, seperated by a line of "@"s: Title : The title of the parody Original : The title of the original Group : The one(s) who performed the original Author : Author of the parody Info : Additional Comments by the Author Song : The Parody itself I'd like to thank the following people for their contributions, suggestions and error corrections (in alphabetical order) Joerg Anslik David Barr Rob Beukers Nelson Bishop Ulrika Bornetun Frank Borger Richard Carlsson Alan Cox Tony Duell Jonathan Dursi Axel Eble Martin Emmerich Uli Fraus Greg Gerke Charlie Gibbs Andreas Gustafsson Thorbjoern Hansen Jonathan E. Katz Romain Kang Evan Kirshenbaum Thomas Koenig Rich Kulawiec Greg Lehey Mark Lottor N. R. Norm Lunde Scott Malcomson Sander van Malssen Adrian Mariano Colin McCormack Keith Michaels Dipesh Navsaria Ove Ruben R Olsen Joel Polowin Reinier Post Robert E. Seastroms George Sicherman Boas Simon Ignatios Souvatzis Ellen Spertus Starship Trooper / Greywolf Russell Street The Unknown User Greg Weiss Martin Welk Alan Winston This collection contains the following songs: [changes to the previous version (1.3) are marked "+" for additions and "/" for edited songs] 0x0d2c + 16 Bits + 602 is Coming to Core 99 Buckets of Bits + 99 Bugs in the Monitor Now A Better Model A Graphic Song A is for Apple Addicted To Vi Addicted To News + A Hacker's Lot The Alternative Wall + A More Effective Manager + An IBM User An Irish CPU Another Glitch in the Call Another One + ARPAWOCKY A Song of Computation A Time for DWIM Automation A Visit from Saint Woz + Away in QMANGR + bbb+b BBN Superlisp + Beautiful Program + The Bell Labs UNIX System + Blow Out / Berkelian Rhapsody Berkeley California Berkeley 4.3 Boot It Both Ways, Now The Boys of HP The Bug Came Back Bye Bye, UNIX + Bye, Bye, System CAMM (Crustified Ancient of Main Memory) Can't parse this + C Hacker in Paradise + The Chilled Water Waltz + COBOL Programmer's Swing + Code-a-lot + Comp Sci Serenade + The Computerbury Tales + Computerized Girl + Computer Man The Computer Nevermore + Control-C Song Core dumped blues + CPU Delight + Crasher's Song CRASH! goes the System + The Crash of the Ten and Eleven CRAY-S's coolant Cycles For Nothing + Dasi, Dasi + The Data-comm Song The Day Bell System Died + The Day SunOS Died The DEC man cometh DECman + Destruction + The Devil Went Down to Crawford The Disks of UNIX Don't Call From Home Don't Have a Conniption DP Man Emacs Wizard + Ever Onward, IBM Every Cycle is Sacred + The Field Service Anthem Fifty Ways to Hose Your Code + The First TOPS-10 Fork()ing on a Sun FORTRAN + FORTRAN Programs + FORTRAN Song French Horn Concerto (for modem users) Friend of the System Gateway To Heaven Gateway To Net Ten Girls just wanna defun + God Rest Ye CS Students + God Rest Ye Merry Network Fans HACKADU The Hackers are Best The Hacker Song + The Hacker's Battle Hymn The Hacker's Song Hacking Iron The HACTRN + Hark! the Screaming Students Cry + Has Anybody Seen My Code? + Hello, my ASCII gal + Hello, Solly I Could Have Tooled All Night + I'd Like to Buy Magnetic Tape + I'm a PDP-10 Wizard + I'm a Programmer I'm Typing Backwards for Christmas + In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree + I/O + I've Been Working on a Kernel I Want a New Bug + I want an RT I am the very model of a Genius Computational Into the Tube + Jargontalk JES The mighty system Just remember that you're flying o'er a disk pack.... + Kludging My Software Lambda Bound Leavin' Fed'ral Express + Little Boxes Little PC + LOGIN Song Lonely Users + The Longest Path + Losing my Connection + Kitty of North Tempe + Magtapes Roasting The Maven + The Modern Software Manager + Monopoly Mr. Bossman My Favorite Hacks My Data are Over the Ocean + My Favorite Things (2) My Favourite Things + My Program Lies in the DEC-20 Network Pie Not a Boolean Ode to Amy (or: The Frontend Shuffle) + Ode To Menu Systems + Old bit stream + Ole McMowle + On the Net Our First Day on Usenet + Over Hill, Over Caile + PC:s are PC:s P-I-F-FO Please Release Me PLIate's Dream Poor Pure Percy P + Programmer The Programmer's Blues / The Programmer's Viewpoint + Programs Puff the Fractal Dragon Rawhide The RSX Backup Song The RSX Support Song The RSX VMS Lovers Song Script for a Hacker's Tear + Sentimental Berwald SIGHUP Blues + Silicon Valley Guy Software for Nothing Socket Man + Somewhere over the Network Song of the Certified Data Processor The Sound of FORTRAN The Sounds of Silence + Stopcode Bells Structured Programmer's Soliloquy The Swapper System Crash Take me Down to the SunLab Tap My Wire + Telnet Song Ten little Modulans That old time PDP + That's Life At Case That was the HASP my friend + Twas the Night Before Implementation The 12 computerised days of Xmas These are are a Few of Our Favorite Machines + Those were the Days Treekiller + The Twelve Days of Uptime The Underfull Badness Blues UNIBUS UNIX Unix Man Unix Quandry Unix Wizard VAX Raphosdy + VMUNIX Blues Waiting for The Sun The Wall 2 What is a Hacker? + What Segment is This? + When I'm Sixty Four When I was a lad When you try to get work from the data network + White Collar Holler + The Wonderful Hacker The Worm before Christmas Write in C Yellow Subroutine One final remark: I collect postcards, so if you like this file and think I deserve a small favour, how about sending me a nice postcard? 8-) I'd appreciate it very much! Really! My address for the next few years is: Stefan Haenssgen Nuitsstr. 2c D-76185 Karlsruhe Germany PS: This file (and future updates) is also available via anonymous FTP at ftp.ira.uka.de (129.13.10.90) in /pub/doc/computersongs-1.4.Z PPS: (So much for "One final remark" ;-) Comments, suggestions, further contributions and error corrections are always welcome! ...and here we go: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@