Relaxen und watchen das blinkenlights. What lights?

re: Relaxen und watchen das blinkenlights. What lights?

DJ — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:14:00 GMT

Sidenote about 'Actung...'. I first saw this on a scintillator in my high school chem lab in 1961, copied it (the author was anonymous), and passed it on to my father. Dad took it to the computer section at the Pentagon. They loved it, and one of the folks there sent it to Reader's Digest magazine. Reader's Digest published it, and the rest is history. Just an example of how memes spread before the Internet.

DJ

re: Relaxen und watchen das blinkenlights. What lights?

Stefan Wuebbe — Sat, 28 May 2005 10:42:55 GMT

> Another note: (if I remember correctly)
> Achtung: Das machine ist nicht fer gerfingerpoken und mittengraben....

This one actually sounds like one of genius Charlie Chaplin's speeches in The Great Dictator, doesn't it?

Regards
-Stefan

re: Relaxen und watchen das blinkenlights. What lights?

Bob Firth — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:03:29 GMT

In the mid 1960s I used an Elliott 503 in my summer job at EMI Wells (UK). It occupied several wall cabinets, and has two tape readers and two punches for peripherals. It wnet wrong so often that the Elliott engineers left an Engineering Board permanently connected - a panel about three feet by two, with around a hundred lights for the various registers. Very impressive, esp with dimmed room lights!

The architecture was unusual - a 39 bit word, two instructions per word where the middle bit was called the B-line (for dynamic instruction modification). The memory was 8K words of ferrite cores - contents were retained during power-off.

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re: Relaxen und watchen das blinkenlights. What lights?

Bob B. — Fri, 19 May 2006 08:45:34 GMT

The fist time I saw this sign was in '81 or '82. I was on a service call to a moderately large home in central Phoenix to repair a stereo system.
The main equipment console was a beautiful custom crafted (local craftsman named Russworm I think) mahogany entertainment center designed to match the eqally elegant (and large!)Bozak speaker systems. In the very center of the front edge wher the lid opened, was a little 2x3" silver plaque with the "Achtung" in red Old English. I copied it down in my note pad and shared it often.

The irony of all this? The repair required me to bring the VERY expensive McIntosh tuner/preamp to the shop - someone had wrapped aluminum foil around a pesky little fuse that kept blowing!! Ended up needing a few diodes (the ORIGINAL problem) AND.... a new power transformer.

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