
Among the recent additions to the Bitsavers retrocomputing archive is a scan of the Mt Xinu 1993 calendar <http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/mtXinu/1993_MT_XINU_Calendar.pdf>. On the flip side of each month’s page is a collection of clippings from some interestingly mythical magazines and newspapers. For example, a purported article on “How to eat a meal near a keyboard -- Safely!” hints at an implement that is both “a mouse AND a scrub-brush!”. The cover of a magazine targeted at “computer professionals” touts a report on “Strategic partnerships: What CEOs should know about space aliens” as well as “DOS removers, do they do what they claim?” And then there’s the ad for improving the productivity of your staff with a department-wide installation of a product called ... UrethraNet ...