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A SOLID STATE JABBERWOCKY 
"Twas Burroughs, and the Illiacs 
Did JOSS and SYSGEN in the stack 
All ANSI were the acronyms. 
And the Eckert-Mauchly ENIAC. 
"Beware the deadly OS, son! 
The Megabyte, the JCL! 
Beware the Gigabit, and shun 
The ponderous CODASYL!" 
He took his KSR in hand: 
Long time the Armonk foe 
So rested he by the Syntax 
And APL'ed in thougt. 
And as in on-line thought he stood 
The CODASYL of verbose fame. 
Came parsing thru the Chomsky wood. 
And COBOL’ed as it camel 
One, two! One, two! And thru and thru 
The final poll at last drew NAK! 
He left it dead, and with its head 
He iterated back. 
"And has thou downed old Ma Bell? 
he fought Come to my 
Tree Oh Hollerith 
He macroed 
arms, my real-time boy! 
Day! Array! Array!" 
in his joy. 
'Twas Burroughs, and the ILLIACS 
Did JOSS and SYSGEN in the stackj 
All ANSI were the acronyms, 
And the Eckert-Mauchly ENIAC. 
(Written by W. J. Wilson; stolen from Datamation, April, 1972 by JAP) 
MUSTARD 
(Museum and University STorage And Retrieval of Data) 
THE ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SYSTEM 
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Mathematics Division, is 
developing the "Environmental Information System" as a center for 
coordination of bibliographic information of several types. Five 
different sources of information are now involved in the input of 
data to the system: the Information Center of the Eastern Decid¬ 
uous Forest Biome of the International Biological Program; the 
Environmental Mutagen Information Center; The Environmental Pro¬ 
gram Information Center; the Ecological Science Information Cen¬ 
ter; and the Toxicology Information Query Response Center. Through 
the use of a generalized system of input, the data of all of these 
centers are compatible. In order to facilitate continued input to 
the center, a paper giving definitions and guidelines for 25 data 
elements or information fields as they are applied in putting 
information into the EIS, with examples covering some of the 
variations one might encounter, has just been issued, and is 
cited below.--JAP. 
Oen, C J, N F Sollins SDK Trubey. Guide to the generalized 
bibliographic format for the Environmental Information 
System. ORNL Publ. EIS-71-3, 1972: 1-36. 
