MONTHLY PUZZLE Solution

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                         Castle Oaks Computer Services
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Here are the puzzle words:

MOUSE MONITOR KEYBOARD FLOPPYDISK FLOPPYDRIVE CPU RAM CDROM SPEAKERS NETWORK 

DOS WINDOWS SOFTWARE BASIC COBOL UNIVAC APPLE SCANNER PRINTER TRACKBALL 

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