Some Museum Exhibits

May 11, 2009 · Posted in Computers and Humour, Hazards to Health

The above title will soon be explained if you read on….

Under a section of Microholics called “Hazards to Health” I invented some pretty stupid make-believe diseases that you could contract from exposing yourself to the microcomputer. Here’s Page 67 of the book:

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PERIPHERAL DISEASES

Quite a number of these. For a start there’s Tapeworms, so be sure to buy your tapes from reputable sources. Then, of course, you might get a Slipped Disc, and if that doesn’t lay you out, the dreaded Interfaeces surely will (a complaint not dissimilar to constipation). If you have a printer, beware! Getting part of your anatomy stuck in it might result in severe Daisyweals

But the list is too long and punful to continue….

peripherals - printer

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Tapes? - who uses those any more?

And hands up if you’ve heard of a daisy-wheel printer. I’ll have you know, there was a time they were pure state-of-the art, especially when they started to replace the old dot-matrix monstrosities.

Look at the stationery going through that printer - continuous stationery it was called, and churned out by the ton, especially in the commercial world.

Which prompted this cartoon (circa 1987 I think):

print-out scrap-paper