[TriLUG] Memories, or something

[Pete Soper via TriLUG]

In 1955 I was three years away from my dad bringing home leftover
lengths of teflon insulated wire that went into the AN/FSQ-7 he was
helping build (it was a few years later that I discovered that ordinary
wire insulation melts with a soldering iron). But they had several feet
of concrete and Air Force guards in lieu of the psuedo-German warning.

-Pete

On 11/9/18 11:11 AM, Peter Neilson wrote:
> Of course, of course, and it's covered in the Jargon File stuff we all
> have seen and some of us may have written. Wikipedia says that
> something like that goes back at least to 1955 at IBM.
>
> For an especially beautiful version, see the German Wikipedia entry:
> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights_(Jargon)
>
> On Fri, 09 Nov 2018 11:07:45 -0500, Pete Soper via TriLUG
> <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
>> When the AOS project (second generation disk operating system) launched
>> at Data General in the mid 70s in Massachusetts I first saw this on a
>> sign hung over the front of a rack of Eclipses.
>>
>> -Pete
>>
>> On 11/9/18 10:57 AM, Brian McCullough via TriLUG wrote:
>>> For a while now, at least a week, I have been remembering a sign that
>>> some of us may remember from the dawn of time ( or at least the earlier
>>> days of computers ).
>>>
>>>
>>> Here is one variation:
>>>
>>> : ACHTUNG!
>>> ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS!
>>> DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FUR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN!
>>> ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND
>>> POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKEN.
>>> IST NICHT FUR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN
>>> KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HANDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS.
>>> ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Have Fun!
>>>
>>> Brian