Posted on 05/16/2010 4:15:17 AM PDT by martin_fierro
Dirty, dirty PCs: The X-rated picture guide
Horror beyond human imagination
By Lester Haines • Get more from this author
Posted in Bootnotes, 13th November 2009 11:00 GMT
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Ventblockers Our shock picture last Friday of a Quatermass-style lifeform lurking inside a PC prompted a flurry of snaps forwarded by readers who had similarly confronted unspeakable horrors.
We gather that many of our correspondents are responding well to therapy, and could be back working in PC maintenance in five years or so. Others, sadly, are condemned to spend the rest of their days in a padded room gibbering about alien beings like that unfortunate bloke from Quatermass and the Pit who sees a hellish vision of Mars inhabited by Red Planet bouncing insect creatures.
Well, flamethowers at the ready. We're going in...
1991, or maybe 1992. The company I worked for had been selling NCR Tower 16/32 multi-user systems, then started switching over to Intel boxen with SCO Unix, four- or eight-port multi-user terminal cards, and Wyse terminals. They even sold some of the first IBM RS/6000 machines around 1993.
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