{"id":637,"date":"2010-04-05T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=637"},"modified":"2012-08-13T10:30:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T15:30:47","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-the-too-personal-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/637\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-too-personal-computer","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> The Too-Personal Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/ims_international_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/ims_international_small.jpg\" alt=\"IMS International Ad - 1983\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>&#8220;Is your personal computer TOO personal?&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Facetious 1980s computer manual quote: &#8220;Never operate a computer with the monitor sitting directly in front of you.  Neck torsion increases muscle tone and blood flow to the brain, resulting in higher computing performance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Interface Age, November 1983, p.13 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Have you ever been forced to share a PC with someone else?  Tell us about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Is your personal computer TOO personal?&#8221; Facetious 1980s computer manual quote: &#8220;Never operate a computer with the monitor sitting directly in front of you. Neck torsion increases muscle tone and blood flow to the brain, resulting in higher computing performance.&#8221; [ From Interface Age, November 1983, p.13 ] Discussion Topic of the Week: Have you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,27,26,10],"tags":[139,193,192,191,195,196,60,194],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-139","tag-ergonomics","tag-ims-5000is","tag-ims-international","tag-interface-age","tag-multiuser","tag-retro-scan","tag-woman-with-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}