Today in Tedium: Could we pin this all on C.W. McCall? In the early 1980s, the personal computer industry had a big problem—they were feeling perhaps their first-ever bout of regulation from a federal agency. The regulatory body in question? The Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The reason? A huge amount of concern about radio frequency interference, and how it might cause our TV and radio signals to stop working correctly. And the result? Thick metal plates in basically every home comput...