OT Re: Pair of HP 1000 E-Series minicomputers on eBay

[Andreas Holz]

This one hung at the cyber 176 console I was working on in the end of the 70s.



> Am 30.01.2015 um 18:35 schrieb Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com>:
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>> On Jan 30, 2015, at 11:23 AM, js at cimmeri.com wrote:
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>> On 1/30/2015 12:13 PM, tony duell wrote:
>>>> Here:
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>>>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/141300893919
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>>>> The seller has them listed at 'Buy-It-Now' for $1,800, but the listing does
>>>> say 'make an offer', so you might be able to get it down a ways, to something
>>>> more reasonable. They seem like they have an interesting (non-identical) set
>>>> of peripheral cards. However, I know nothing of HP's, so take this all with a
>>>> large grain of salt!
>>> Pity they're the wrong side of the Pond :-(...
>>> 
>>> -tony
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>> It's not a pond.. it's an ocean.  Why do some people insist on calling it a pond?
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>> And "whilst" I'm at it, why do some insist on using "blinkenlights" in re CPU front panels instead of correct English -- blinking lights?
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> Because the Faux German Blinkenlights is so much cooler to say. It’s a corruption of Blinenlichten from an old joke:
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> ACHTUNG!
> ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS!
> 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.
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> which dates to the 1950’s…
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> See also the insistence on the plural of VAX being VAXEN.
> 
> Warner