WHAT A COMPUTER IS

A retired sailor, very aware that ships are addressed as "she", often
wondered what gender computers should be given. He set up two groups of
computer experts,one comprised of women and the other of men. Each group was
asked to recommend the gender by which computers should be referred to and
give 4 reasons for their recommendation.

The group of women decided that computers should be referred to in the
masculine gender because:

1)In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on.
2)They have a lot of data, but are still clueless.
3)They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they are
the problem.
4)As soon as you commit to one, you realize that, if you had waited a
little longer, you could have had a better model.




The men, on the other hand, concluded that computers should be referred to
in the feminine gender because:

1)No one but the Creator understands their internal logic.
2)The native language they use to communicate with other computers is
incomprehensible to everyone else.
3)Even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for later
retrieval.
4)As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half
your paycheck on accessories for it.