Merchandise Spotlight-Computer Catalogs (1,078 words)

I do not know a RAM from an MHz or an MB; the terms "DIMM," "Iomega Zip," "UNIX," "3D AGP Graphics," "full speed L2 cache," "ATI RAGE PRO TURBO graphics card" and "DMI 2.0 Compliant" are absolute gibberish to me. I am sneered at by techies, computer salesmen and software manufacturers for being computer illiterate. You know what? I don't care. Recently someone complained that presidential hopeful George W. Bush does not have a hands-on grasp of the issues and the nitty-gritty of policy. One savvy political analyst in his campaign said, "Yeah, well, we don't want to elect mechanics; we want to elect drivers."