30 Jan
2015
30 Jan
'15
9:35 a.m.
On Jan 30, 2015, at 11:23 AM, js at cimmeri.com
wrote:
On 1/30/2015 12:13 PM, tony duell wrote:
It's not a pond.. it's an ocean. Why do some people insist on calling it a
pond?
And "whilst" I'm at it, why do some insist on using
"blinkenlights" in re CPU front panels instead of correct English -- blinking
lights?
Because the Faux German Blinkenlights is so much cooler to say. It?s a corruption of
Blinenlichten from an old joke:
ACHTUNG!
ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS!
DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT F?R DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY
TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKEN.
IST NICHT F?R GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS
COTTONPICKEN H?NDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS.
ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.
which dates to the 1950?s?
See also the insistence on the plural of VAX being VAXEN.
Warner
Here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/141300893919
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