[TUHS] Unix spotted in Mumbai.

Steffen Nurpmeso steffen at sdaoden.eu
Wed Aug 14 10:03:54 AEST 2024


Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote in
 <ZrvzM1vdHU8LjkkO at hydra.lemis.com>:
 |On Tuesday, 13 August 2024 at  9:21:18 -0500, Will Senn wrote:
 |> On 8/13/24 08:47, Dan Cross wrote:
 |>> I thought some may appreciate the linked photo: Unix spotted near Mumbai
 |>> Central Railway Station, Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India.
 |>> https://photos.app.goo.gl/acTTsfvYt5suP4wS6
 |>>
 |> Wow, cool. But those coconuts have seen better days, is it sad that they
 |> still trigger a yearning for fresh coconut?
 |
 |FWIW, that's just the husk.  The contents were probably completely OK.
 |I'm just wondering how you use a coconut as a mobile phone accessory.
 |
 |On Tuesday, 13 August 2024 at 22:35:06 +0000, The UNIX Heritage Society \
 |wrote:
 |>
 |> The relevant pages on dmr's Bell Labs page:
 |>
 |> https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/otherunix.html
 |
 |One that's missing there is one I saw in Frankfurt (Main) in the late
 |1980s: a car rental company called "Unix rent".  Unfortunately I never

Hmm but there is one with identical logo, only from Düsseldorf
iirc.  That's the same logo, no?

 |had a camera with me when I saw it.  A Google search brings up a
 |number of poor quality links, a few images and
 |http://web.deu.edu.tr/berent/unix/otherunix.html , which appears to be
 |a modified version of dmr's page.

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)


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