Article View: alt.folklore.computers
Article #381Re: Real(tm) Folklore
From: sha... Sharon Fisher
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 18:15
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 18:15
13 lines
1305 bytes
1305 bytes
In article <84...@ttidca.TTI.COM> holl...@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath) writes: >I can't claim to have actually seen this one, but the L.A. Times reported, >some time in the late '60s, that the following sign hung in the UCLA >computer room: > > ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS! DAS COMPUTENMACHINE IST NICHT FUR > GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABBEN! IST EASY SNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, > BLOWEN FUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT PITZENSPARKEN! IST NICHT FUR > GEWERKEN BY DAS DUMBKOPFEN! DAS RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS > HANTS IN DAS POCKETS, RELAXEN UND VATCH DAS BLINKENLIGHTS! This was fairly common, actually. I saw it about 1976 in a computer center in upstate New York.
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<9167@asylum.SF.CA.US>Path:
mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!decwrl!amdcad!hoptoad!asylum!sharonReferences:
<8484@ttidca.TTI.COM>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!decwrl!amdcad!hoptoad!asylum!sharon From: sha...@asylum.SF.CA.US (Sharon Fisher) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Real(tm) Folklore Message-ID: <9167@asylum.SF.CA.US> Date: 20 Dec 89 18:15:18 GMT References: <8484@ttidca.TTI.COM> Reply-To: sharon@asylum.UUCP (Sharon Fisher) Organization: The Asylum; Belmont, CA Lines: 13 Posted: Wed Dec 20 19:15:18 1989 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit