Hospi=
tal regulations require a wheelchair for patients being discharged. Ho=
wever, while working as a student nurse, I found one elderly gentleman alre=
ady dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet, who insiste=
d he didn’t need my help to leave the hospital.
Afte=
r a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly let me wheel him to the el=
evator.
On the way down I asked him if his wife was meeti=
ng him.
“I don’t know,’ he s=
aid. ‘She’s still upstairs in the bathroom changing out of her hospital gow=
n.“
~~ANSWERS to Computer Acronyms=
and Abbreviations~~
WWW – [World Wide Web]
1. ASCII =
– American Standard Code for Information Interchange
2. BIOS – =
Basic Input/Output System
3. BMP – Bitmap
4. BASIC – Beginner’=
s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
5. CAD – Computer Aided =
Design
6. CAPTCHA – Completely Automated Public Turing=
Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
7. CPU – Central P=
rocessing Unit
8. DOS – Disk Operating System
9=
=2E HDMI – =
High-Definition Multimedia Interface
10. HTML – Hyper-Text Markup Lan=
guage
11. HTTP – Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol
12. I=
SP – Intern=
et Service Provider
13. JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group
14. MIDI – =
Musical Instrument Digital Interface
15. OCR – Optical Character Reco=
gnition
16. PDF – Portable Document Format
=
17. =
PSU – Power=
Supply Unit
18. RAM – Random Access Memory
19. ROM – Read-Only=
Memory
20. SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
21.=
URL – Unif=
orm Resource Locator
22. USB – Universal Serial Bus
2=
3. VoIP – V=
oice Over Internet Protocol
~=
Dr Bob Griffin
[email protected]=
www.grif.net
"Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!=
"