Re: [TUHS] Names of famous, historical UNIX machines?

There was a phone in there and it would ring and a sales guy would pick it up saying "Moshi, Moshi" which I took to mean "Hi" or "hello". It was always corporate calling to see how things were going. So one day I'm in there by myself and the phone rings and without thinking about it (I don't speak Japanese so WTF was I thinking?), I pick it up and say "Mushi, Mushi". Too which I get a stream of horrified Japanense and I just hang up. The sales guys show later and I say "I answered a call for you". "Oh, yeah, what did you say?" "Mushi, mushi". Stunned silence and then they are rolling on the floor laughing. I'm going "What? What did I do?". They say "Corporate called to find out how things are going and the software guy said 'bug, bug' and hung up". We all went out drinking that night, those sales guys were all right. Seemed sort of cold before that but we were buds from there forward. I'll bet you a pile of money somewhere there is a sales guy in Japan who tells this story, probably not in a way that is flattering to me :) (Note this about 30 years ago and I can't remember if Moshi is hi or if it is Mushi that is hi, but you get the idea). --larry "bug, bug" mcvoy