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Dust Covers have been the most useless hardware ever produced for CPC computers. These accessories have been advertised to "protect" the CPCs dust-resistant ''membrane keyboard'', or even its ''monitor'' against dust.
== History ==
Although being completely useless, dust covers have been (in germany, at least) almost more popular CPC accessories than [[Digital Joysticks|joysticks]]. Whereas, it had to be a ''real'' dust cover - one needed to buy it (using old newspapers or worn T-shirts would have been declassé).
Today, Dust Covers are more or less unknown. But, they have left some scars: Many people still feel irrationally guilty when exposing computer hardware to dust. The dust cover phenomenon (eighties) can be compared with the hype for equally useless ''mouse pads'' (nineties), and ''protective foils'' for LCD screens (first decade of 21st century).
== Legal Status ==
There are no known laws again producing, distributing, or even using dust covers. However, one is likely to lose any warranties if a computer catches fire because of covering its ventilation holes, and forgetting to previously switch off the power-supply. The typical users never realized that problem, otherwise they'd have probably died from a heart-attack when stressing the dilemma: risk the warranty? or risk the dust?
== History ==
Although being completely useless, dust covers have been (in germany, at least) almost more popular CPC accessories than [[Digital Joysticks|joysticks]]. Whereas, it had to be a ''real'' dust cover - one needed to buy it (using old newspapers or worn T-shirts would have been declassé).
Today, Dust Covers are more or less unknown. But, they have left some scars: Many people still feel irrationally guilty when exposing computer hardware to dust. The dust cover phenomenon (eighties) can be compared with the hype for equally useless ''mouse pads'' (nineties), and ''protective foils'' for LCD screens (first decade of 21st century).
== Legal Status ==
There are no known laws again producing, distributing, or even using dust covers. However, one is likely to lose any warranties if a computer catches fire because of covering its ventilation holes, and forgetting to previously switch off the power-supply. The typical users never realized that problem, otherwise they'd have probably died from a heart-attack when stressing the dilemma: risk the warranty? or risk the dust?
