CPU Wars

/C-P-U worz/ A 1979 large-format comic by Chas Andres

chronicling the attempts of the brainwashed androids of IPM

(Impossible to Program Machines) to conquer and destroy the

peaceful denizens of HEC (Human Engineered Computers). This

rather transparent allegory featured many references to

ADVENT and the immortal line "Eat flaming death,

minicomputer mongrels!" (uttered, of course, by an IPM

stormtrooper). It is alleged that the author subsequently

received a letter of appreciation on IBM company stationery

from the head of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratories

(then, as now, one of the few islands of true hackerdom in the

IBM archipelago). The lower loop of the B in the IBM logo, it

is said, had been carefully whited out. See eat flamingdeath.

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