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by askiiart 870 days ago
"What do you call it when you're prosecuted for illegally importing cardboard computers?"

"CARDIAC arrest (ba-dum tsss)"

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Yes, very funny. But they knew what they were doing when they named it that. There was a series of early computers named ILLIAC (because they were created at the University of Illinois and after ENIAC, a famous computer that was "the first" digital programmable computer by some definitions of those words). The illiac artery connects to the heart, so CARDIAC makes sense (also of course, it was made of cardboard)