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charles@c3pe.UUCP (Charles Green) writes:

>In article <129...@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> r_hayes@sun.UUCP (Roger Hayes) writes:
>>In (a long chain of articles) (several people) write:
>>>>Seen in a computer room:

>>>>     ACHTUNG!  ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS!  DAS COMPUTENMACHINE IST NICHT FUR

>A former fellow programmer here, who professed to know German, made a point of
>trying to translate this for our edification.  He got a few of the words, but
>was stumped by most of it.

We had a similar sign hanging on a piece weird equipment (an old SilTec sorter)
except that it said "Instrumenten" rather than "Computenmachine".

Our company is owned by a German company. One day a plant tour came through.
Those of us working on the machine were about ready to die when we realized
that all these important Germans were looking at the sign. But we tried our
best to keep working as if nothing unusual was happening. 

The next day the sign was gone and we never did have the guts to ask why
or what the Germans (The BOARD OF DIRECTORS!!) had thought.
-- 
Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
CIS: [70465,203]
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools.
Let's start with typewriters." -- Solomon Short