@til Today I learned that the first Xerox copier regularly caught fire, so they shipped it with a fire extinguisher. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox/_914
@til Today I learned that the first Xerox copier regularly caught fire, so they shipped it with a fire extinguisher. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox/_914
5 Comments
jbrjake@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 114d
Love this line from the wiki article: ‘A secretary he had interviewed for the piece said that a technical representative from Xerox had warned her "not to be afraid of the 914 because the machine would sense her fear and, like a mischievous child, misbehave."’
finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 113d
That's true of all printers even today
bhamlin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 113d
Xerox was always a leader in halt and catch fire standardization.
ranzispa@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 111d
Nit a kernel panic if it's burning.
bhamlin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 110d
I can panic while on fire, why can't a copier?