brain dump

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brain dump

Writing down or explaining all the information one has on a particular technical topic.
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Had the direct mail manager been on the ball, an nth-name tape dump would have been ordered, so a portion of the list could have been eyeballed in hard copy.
Data-processing professionals rarely examine tape dumps to determine whether the list conforms to instructions.
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