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VERSION
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the library version number: 1.30 containing 250 acronyms
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CREDITS
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the people who have helped by sending acronyms...
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ANI
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Automatic Number Identification
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MCM
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Miami Cracking Machine
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ICE
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International Cracking Elite
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NYC
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New York Crackers
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TCS
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The Criminal Society
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VGA
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Video Graphics Array or Video Graphics Adaptor
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CGA
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Color Graphics Adaptor
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UGC
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UnderGround Council
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EGA
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Enhanced Graphics Adaptor
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HGC
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Hercules Graphics Card
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HGA
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Hercules Graphics Adaptor
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AP
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Acute Paranoia
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MAD
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Massive Anarchist Destruction
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MCGA
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Multi-Color Graphics Array or Multi-Color Graphics Adaptor
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MGA
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Monochrome Graphics Adaptor
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MNP
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Microcom Networking Protocol
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IBM
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International Business Machines
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PCH
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Phreaking Carding Hacking
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VMB
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Voice Mail Box
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WHOA
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Wicked Hackers Of America
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CHAOS
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Central Hackers Arch Operation Sanctum
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GIF
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Graphics Interchange Format
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AAA
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Aces of Ansi Art
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DTR
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Data Terminal Ready
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UPI
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United Phreakers Incorporated
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MCC
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Mad Cracking Crew
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PB
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Pacific Brigade
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AI
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Artificial Intelligence
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NPA
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Northern Phreaker's Alliance or Numeral Prefix Allocation
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TDS
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The Drop Site! Home of Acro-ID!
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ISSN
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Integrated Special Systems Network
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ANIF
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Automatic Number Identification Failure
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NUP
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New User Password
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DOS
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Disk Operating System
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BASIC
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Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
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INC
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International Network Crackers
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TSAN
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The Sysops Association Network
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FIRM
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First In Releasing Most
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LASA
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Los Angeles Sysops Association
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TCK
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The Crashing Krew
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CAA
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Certified Ansi Artists
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HEAT
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Hacker's Enterprises Across Telecommunications
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LOD
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Legion Of Doom
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LOD/H
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Legion of Doom Hackers
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BPS
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Bits Per Second
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CPS
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Characters Per Second
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BBS
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Bulliten Board System
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IC
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Integrated Circuit
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AIDS
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Acronyms Inscribed by the Drop Site
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USR
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United States Robotics
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SYSOP
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SYStem OPerator
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NAPPA
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North American Pirate/Phreak Association
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NAP/PA
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North American Pirate/Phreak Association
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RLL
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Run Length Limited
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AT
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Advanced Technology or ATtention
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PC
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Personal Computer
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DSDD
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Double Sided Double Density
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DSHD
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Double Sided High Density
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SSDD
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Single Sided Double Density
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SSHD
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Single Sided High Density
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IO
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Input Output
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I/O
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Input/Output
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TP
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Turbo Pascal
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MS
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MicroSoft or Millisecond
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MS DOS
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MicroSoft Disk Operating System
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RAM
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Random Access Memory
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CD
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Compact Disc
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ROM
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Read Only Memory
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CD ROM
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Copmact Disc Read Only Media
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LAN
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Local Area Network
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RGB
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Red Green Blue
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UPS
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United Postal Service
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USPS
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United States Postal Service
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MB
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MegaByte
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HD
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Hard Drive
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LQ
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Letter Quality
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FORTRAN
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FORmula TRANslator
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COBOL
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???? ???? Business Oriented Language
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EMS
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Expanded Memory Specification
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FCC
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Federal Communications Commission
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FBI
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
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TI
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Texas Instruments
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HP
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Hewlett Packard
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CAD
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Computer Aided Drafting
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XT
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OS/2
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Operating System /2
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ASCII
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American Standard Code for Information Interchange
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ANSI
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American National Standards Institute
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ZIP
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????
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ARC
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ARChive
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LZH
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????
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FAX
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????
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MODEM
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MOdulator/DEModulator
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LIM
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????
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ID
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IDentification
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PW
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PassWord
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ACN
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Area Code Number
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IRS
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Internal Revenue Service
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TSR
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Terminate and Stay Resident
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INT
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INTerrupt
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GIGO
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Garbage In Garbage Out
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GUI
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Graphical User Interface
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DC
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Direct Current
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AC
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Alternating Current
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MFM
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SCSI
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Small Computer Systems Interface
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FM
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Frequency Modulation
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AM
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Amplitude Modulation
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UNIX
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an operating system
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XENIX
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NEC
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OOPS
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Object Oriented Programming System
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RS232
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???? Serial 232
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PGC
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???? Graphics Card
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ST
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????
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HUD
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Heads Up Display
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GEM
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????
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AT&T
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American Telephone and Telegraph
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ATT
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American Telephone and Telegraph
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MCI
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Microwave Communciations Incorporated
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NEXT
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VDI
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Virtual Device Interface
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AES
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Application Enviornment Services
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SE
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COD
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Cash On Delivery
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EPROMS
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Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
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CMOS
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EEPROMS
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DELPHI
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???
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RC
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Remote Controlled
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FIDO
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PCB
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Personal Computer Board
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SIG
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Special Interest Group
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DL
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DownLoad
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UL
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UpLoad
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GB
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GigaBytes
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HIRES
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HIgh RESolution
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PIXEL
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PIXure ELement
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MIDI
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Musical Instrument Digital Interface
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FDC
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Floppy Disk Controller
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HDC
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Hard Disk Controller
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MHZ
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MegaHertZ
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MIPS
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Millions of Instructions Per Second
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VLSI
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Very Large Scale Integration
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CPM
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CP/M
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DEC
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Digital Equipment Company
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BIOS
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Basic Input Output System
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ITU
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International Telecommunication Union
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DMM
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Digital Multi-Meter
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CRT
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Cathode Ray Tube
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CTS
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Clear To Send
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RTS
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Request To Send
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PBX
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Private Branch eXchange
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DTE
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Data Terminal Equipment
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DCE
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Data Communications Equipment
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CCITT
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Comite Consultatif International de Telegraphique/Telephonique
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ITTCC
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International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Comittee
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ISO
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International Standards Organization
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LCD
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Liquid Crystal Display
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NET
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New England Telephone
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NYNEX
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New York New England eXchange
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TDD
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Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf
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CO
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Central Office
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NLQ
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Near Letter Quality
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DPI
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Dots Per Inch
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FX
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effects, as in sound fx or grafx
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TTL
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PP
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Postage Paid
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MO
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Mail Order
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POB
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Post Office Box
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VCR
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Video Cassette Recorded
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MC
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MasterCard
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GEOS
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ACCT
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ACCounT
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PCP
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Personal Computer Pursuit or Pacific Coast Pirates
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AMEX
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AMerican EXpress
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APHA
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American Phreak Hack Association
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API
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American Pirate Industries
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TPSA
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Telegard Pirate Sysop Alliance
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TRIAD
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Formation of PTL and Emulex Team (PTL $print and UGC)
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UCLA
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United Crackers Lab Association
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UNION
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a cracking group
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UPC
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United Phreaker's Coalition
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/ETC/PASSWD
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the Unix password file default
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VAX
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Virtual Architectural eXtentions
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WWIV
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World War IV- BBS software
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BCC
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Boys from Company C or Bilbo's Cracking Club
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BSP
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Bently Sidwell Productions
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CCIS
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Common Channel Interoffice Signalling
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CCS
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Common Channel Signalling
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CHINA
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Communist Hackers In North America
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CIA
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Central Intelligence Agency
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CLASS
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Custom Local Area Signalling Service
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CNA
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Customer Name and Address
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COSMOS
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AT&T's main computer system
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CPI
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Canadian Pirates Incorporated
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CPU
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Central Processing Unit
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ALU
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Arithmetic Logic Unit
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DEPBA
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Digital Exchange Pirate Board Alliance
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DMA
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Direct Memory Access
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DTMF
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Dual Tone Multi-Frequency
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DUNE
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Dallas Underground Network Exchange- part of UNION
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ECA
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Elite Cracker's Association
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ECHO
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Elite Crackers/Hackers Organization
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EPAH
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Ethical Phreaker's and Hackers
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ESS
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Electronic Switching Service
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FCP
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Fone ConsPiracy
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GFILE
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Genreal FILE
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DBASE
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DataBASE
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HACK
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Hacking And Computer Krashing
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HST
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High Speed Transfer
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IRS
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Internal Revenue Service or fIles Reviewing Society
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ITT
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International Telephone and Telegraph
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IT&T
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International Telephone and Telegraph
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KAOS
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Krackers Association Of Sweden
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LMOS
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Loop Maintenance Operating System
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NARC
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Nuclear hAckers phReakers Carders
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NASA
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North American Society Anarchists or North American Sysop Alliance
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NCC
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Norwegian Cracking Company
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NSOC
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National Society Of Crackers
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ONI
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Operator Number Identification
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PAD
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Public Access Device or Packet Assembler/Dissassembler
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PCR
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Post Call Ratio
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PPP
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Phucking Phield Phreakers
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PSI
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Pirates Sick of Initials
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PSN
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Packet Switching Network
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PTL
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Pirates That Live
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RAID
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Rebel Anarchists Incur Destruction
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RAWCRACK
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a Pirate/Crack group
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SCPG
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Southern California Pirates Guild
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SIMM
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Single Inline Memory Module
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SPECTRA
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an organization that is part of GUILD
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SPI
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Software Pirates Incorporated
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$PRINT
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$ Protection Removed In No Time ($ for the money you save)
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STOC XCHANGE
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STraight Outta California eXchanges
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SURGE
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MAC
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MACintosh computer
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CBM
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Commodore Business Machines
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LSI
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Large Scale Integration
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MSI
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Medium Scale Integration
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NET
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NETwork
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HDD
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Hard Disk Drive
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FDD
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Floppy Disk Drive
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TAC
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The Artist's Club
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TCS
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The Criminal Syndicate
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TEKNIKA
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an elite programming group
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THG
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The Humble Guys
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TIFF
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Tag Image File Format
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TIPN
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The International Piracy News
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