Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS)

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From	Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
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Subject	Re: Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS)
Date	Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:49:38 +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.

Thread

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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