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Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS)

From Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS)
Date 2014-03-31 19:49 +1100
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On 31/03/2014 7:35 PM, Huge wrote:
> On 2014-03-30, philo  <philo@privacy.net> wrote:
>> On 03/30/2014 05:39 PM, Roger Blake wrote:
>>> On 2014-03-30, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
>>>> Nowadays, we spend nearly 6 hours each day staring at a display, ...
>>>
>>> Nowadays? I was doing this over 30 years ago. (Much more than 6 hours
>>> each day for that matter.) No "CVS" symptoms so far.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Same here.
>>
>> I've been using a computer for 15 years,
>
> Newbie!      :o)
>
> When I started, screens were not an issue - you just had to be able to read
> a punch card, and then ASR33 printout ("How do you make the font larger on
> this thing?")
>

Ah yes. ASR33. Awful noisy machine.

Though at least it didn't obscure what you were typing the way the 
(albeit much quieter) Olivettis did.

110 baud. Gotta love it.

Sylvia.

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Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-30 14:33 +0000
  Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2014-03-30 22:39 +0000
    Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) philo  <philo@privacy.net> - 2014-03-30 18:01 -0500
      Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-03-30 23:13 +0000
      Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-31 08:35 +0000
        Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-03-31 19:49 +1100
        Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-03-31 17:34 +0000
          Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-31 20:49 +0200
            Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-31 19:50 +0000
  Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-01 21:07 +0000
    Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) "John" <j@j.j> - 2014-04-01 16:17 -0700
    Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-04-02 08:59 +0000
    Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-04-02 19:43 +0100
      Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-02 19:03 +0000
        Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) despen@verizon.net (Dan.Espen) - 2014-04-02 15:18 -0400
  Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net> - 2014-04-02 13:36 -0600

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