Q: When these first became popular, they caught fire so often that they came with a fire extinguisher. What are they?
A: Photocopiers.
Behold, 1959’s groundbreaking Xerox 914, the first successful plain-paper photocopier, weighing in at 648 lbs, making a whopping 136 copies/hour. Much beloved for its propensity to burst into flame while operating, an occasion considered so normal by the manufacturer that they shipped it with a small fire-extinguisher, euphemistically called a “scorch guard.”
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