Byte magazine in the late 70’s had a list of funny mnemonics like this. My fav was SDSD - Seek Data and Scar Disk.
Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 14, 2020, at 07:54, Don Stalkowski via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > I came across this among some junk I had. > > Don > > .TY NEMON.DOC > > LEVEL 5 MACRO-10 MNEMONICS > ============================= > > > > COINCIDENT WITH THE RELEASE OF THE LEVEL 5 MONITOR SERIES, THE > MNEMONICS FOR THE HARDWARE INSTRUCTIONS USED IN THE MACRO-10 > ASSEMBLER HAVE BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT CHANGES TO THE MONITOR, AND > NEW OPERATING PROCEDURES. ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE NOT ALL BEEN IMPLEMENTED > AS YET, A PARTIAL LISTING FOLLOWS: > > TRCE TRANSLATE REDUNDANT CODE TO ETHIOPIAN > ROTC REQUEST OPERATOR TAKE OFF CLOTHES > TDCE TRY TO DUMP CORE EVERYWHERE > HRR HASH RELOCATION REGISTERS > XCT EXTEND CYCLE TIME > ANDCMB ALLOW NO DIRECT CURRENT IN MEMORY BANKS > AOSE ALERT ONE SYSTEMS ENGINEER > SETNM START EJECTING TRANSISTORS AT NEAREST MACHINE > SETCM STOP EVERYTHING TO CRASH MONITOR > SETAM START EATING TAPE ON ALTERNATE MONDAYS > TLCN THROW LIFEPRESERVER INTO CHANNEL FOR NON-SWIMMER > MULM MONITOR UPDATE FROM LUNAR MODULE > MOVMS MAINTAIN ONLY VARIABLE MAGTAPE SPEED > FSBRI FIVE SONIC BOOMS OVER REMOTE INTERFACE > HRRES HIJACK REMOTE READER TO ENGINEERING SCIENCE > HRREM HALT AND REVERSE ROTATION ON EVERY MAGTAPE > JUMPE JUMBLE USERS' MEMORY ON PARITY ERROR > IDPB IMMEDIATELY DROP PARITY BIT > SETCAI SUDDENLY ELECTRIFY TERMINAL ON CRUDELY ARTICULATED INPUT > JFFO JAIL AND FINGERPRINT FLIPPANT OPERATOR > ORCMB OPERATOR REQUEST TO CHANGE MAIN BATTERIES > SKIP SEARCH FOR KNOT IN INPUT STRING > SKIPL SKIP ON KNOT IN POWER LINE > ORCBI ORDER REDUNDANT CHANNELS TO THE BACK OF THE I/O BUS > SUBI START UNLOADING BAGGAGE FROM THE I/O BUS > PUSH PUNCH USING SEMI-CIRCULAR HOLES > JUMPL JUMP AND UNRAVEL MAIN POWER LINE > SOSL SMEAR OUTPUT ON SLOW LINE PRINTERS > TRON TRY TO REWIND OPERATORS' NECKTIE > SOSN SEND OUTPUT TO SUPERVISORS' NECKTIE > AOBJN ADD ONE BIT TO JOB NUMBER > IMULM INSIST THAT MALICIOUS USERS BE LOCKED IN MEMORY > FMPR FORGET MEMORY PROTECTION AND RELOCATION > FMPRB FAKE MONITOR PROBLEMS AND RESET BRIEFLY > CAIE CHANGE ADDRESSING TO INEFFECTIVE FROM EFFECTIVE > TRN TRANSLATE TO ROMAN NUMERALS > DPB DETACH PROCESSOR BRIEFLY > DIVB DECODE INTEGERS TO VERIFIED BRAILLE > SETCAI SNICKER ON ERRONEOUS TYPEIN FOR CAI > DIVMB DESTROY INDIVIDUAL MEMORY BANK > ORCB OUTPUT A RECORD CODED IN BRAILLE > TRCE TRANSFER ON ROMAN CATHOLIC ENGINEER > TLNE TRANSFER ON LUTHERAN ENGINEER > TROA TRANSFER ON ATHEIST > SOS SERVICE ONLY STUDENTS > SOJG SERVICE ONLY JEWISH GRAD STUDENTS > TDC TAKE DISK TO CHIROPRACTER > TSCA TURN SYSTEM CLOCK AHEAD > FADRB FILTER AIR ON DETECTING ROPE BURNING > FADM FILTER AIR ON DETECTING MOUNTIE > PUSHJ PROCESS USER'S SHORTHAND JOB > TDCA TYPE DOCUMENTATION, CENSORING ANECDOTES > MOVEM MONITOR OUTPUTS A VULGAR ERROR MESSAGE > ADDM ALLEVIATE DELAYS IN DECTAPE MOUNTING > AOSL AWAKEN OPERATOR IF SNORING LOUDLY > CAIE CENSOR ALL INPUT FROM ENGINEERING > DPB DISPLAY PASSWORDS FROM BATCH > FSBM FAST SPLICE OF BROKEN MAGTAPE > BLT BEGIN LOSING TIME > S0JG STACK OPERATOR (JUST GIRLS) > TSON TIME SLICE OF ONE NANOSECOND > JRST JOG 'ROUND SEVEN TRACK TAPE > TSC TRANSFER SWAPPING TO CARDS >
