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Who remembers when this was really relevant?

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  • F Forogar

    ACHTUNG! ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENSPEEPERS! DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKEN. IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS. ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.

    - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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    Lost User
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    First saw that stuck on the front panel of one of our mainframe systems more than 50 years ago.

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    • F Forogar

      ACHTUNG! ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENSPEEPERS! DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKEN. IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS. ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.

      - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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      User 11542641
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      It's still relevant! In fact I've been looking for a copy of this! I'm a manufacturing engineer in the automotive industry. It's impossible to get people to keep their hands to themselves. If you put a button on something, someone's going to poke it just to see what it does. Knobs are worse! In fact at one time I disconnected the wires from a speed control knob and wired in a plain old resistor so it would run at the correct speed. Left the knob in place, the operators continued to adjust it from shift to shift certain they could produce more parts with their settings. (upstream operation had a fixed cycle time) Now with PLC's we can eliminate most buttons and knobs, but you still have to prevent access to sensitive settings. Passwords get written on the panels or shared, physical keys end up in known locations etc. We've gotten to a point now where we have to control access by employee ID badge.

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      • R Rick York

        The pressing of the CapsLock key is a skill lost in time.

        "They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

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        DerekT P
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        NO, THIS LONG PREDATES CAPS LOCK - EVERYTHING WAS IN CAPITALS. TELETYPES, PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES - THE LOT. If you wanted lower case, use a typewriter! (I remember the first time I saw a line printer spew out something with lower case - did a serious double-take.)

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        • F Forogar

          ACHTUNG! ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENSPEEPERS! DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKEN. IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS. ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.

          - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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          Bruce Patin
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          Ja, ich habe an grossen Rechnenanlagen in den 1970er gearbietet.

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          • F Forogar

            ACHTUNG! ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENSPEEPERS! DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKEN. IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS. ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.

            - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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            Sometime in 1985, I took my young son in with me while I did some work on a Dec_System-20. He happily played beside me by stacking some orange cones that were put out when the floor was wet, or so I thought. The next day I found he had turned off a disk drive on a Vax system. At that age, I couldn't have resisted the lighted button he pushed. Fortunately, the system was not critical. I think that message was posted somewhere, but then he couldn't read yet so it didn't matter.

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            • F Forogar

              ACHTUNG! ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENSPEEPERS! DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKEN. IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS. ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.

              - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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              StarNamer work
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              That reminds me. I must get started on the PiDP-11/70 (and PiDP-8/E) kits I got as presents... PiDP-11 | obsolescence[^] Ans yes,I am old enough to have used an original PDP-11/70 (and a PDP-8) and done more than just "WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN".

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