A Grate By for the Spelling-Impaired

By MARTHA GROVES

Nov. 23, 1993 12 AM PT

SAN FRANCISCO —

A funny thing happened on the way to Comdex . . .

When a PR firm in Cupertino challenged the computer community to cough up its favorite high-tech humor, the result--a year and a half later--was a compendium of inside banter, daffynitions and programmer humor that perhaps only a technoweenie could love. For example:

I have a spelling checker It came with my PC It plainly marks four my revue Mistakes I cannot sea I’ve run this poem threw it I’m sure your pleased too no It’s letter perfect in it’s weigh My checker told me sew. Your $14.95 buys a catchy title too--”The First, Advanced, State-of-the-Art, High Performance, Totally Integrated, Revolutionary, Leading Edge, High-Tech Joke Book.”

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Martha Groves

Martha Groves, who covered the Westside for the Los Angeles Times, left the newsroom in 2015. A native Hoosier, she became a Metro reporter after many years as a Business writer and editor. She previously worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the late, lamented Chicago Daily News.

A Grate By for the Spelling-Impaired

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