robomatic> technobabble

Strictly speaking, if they were real engineers, what they would have been talking would have been hackish. Technobabble is spoken (loudly) by those who don't know what they're talking about, eg middle management. Technobabble is also the title of a book mentioned in the bibliography of The New Hacker's Dictionary, along with Stan Kelly-Bootle's book (now retitled The Computer Contradictionary).

And looping back to music, I didn't realise till much later that Stan K-B was one of the founding fathers of Cambridge's folk scene, as well as working in what we now call Computer Science, so he was fully entitled to write computer filk. But that's perhaps the subject of a separate thread.