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PWSlack Guru Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: In the bothy, 7 chains down the line from Dodman's Lane level crossing. Kettle's on. Posts: 8653 Good Answers: 163	Rebooting the UK's Oldest Computer 09/04/2009 3:43 AM
	Link. __________________ The elephant is a funny bird. It flits from bough to bough. It lays its eggs in a rhubarb tree and whistles, like a cow - Spike Milligan.
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Del the cat Guru Join Date: May 2007 Location: Harlow England Posts: 10339 Good Answers: 207	#1 Re: UK's oldest computer to be rebooted. 09/04/2009 3:50 AM
	Really good... But at 1:26 you see an instrument with a smiley face!!!! Honest you do! Check it out! Great to see, who ever built it couldn't resist a little bit of whimsey Del __________________ health warning: These posts may contain traces of nut.

Slow Old Poop Power-User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 100 Good Answers: 2	#2 In reply to #1 Re: UK's oldest computer to be rebooted. 09/04/2009 11:02 PM
	That wasn't a smiley face--it was the old WW2 "Kilroy Was Here" face http://www.kilroywashere.org/001-Pages/01-0KilroyLegends.html

snygolfgs Power-User Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Endless Mountains of NE Pa, USA Posts: 270 Good Answers: 18	#3 In reply to #1 Re: UK's oldest computer to be rebooted. 09/06/2009 3:20 AM
	LOL. Good catch! Looks like a Smiley face to me. Even the commentator seems to chuckle about the same time the 'face' is in full view. Maybe he was watching the film while commenting. __________________ Some drink at the fountain of knowledge - others just gargle and spit while wincing, as if from a foul taste......Egre Flagrus
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dadw5boys Guru Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Piney Flats, Tennessee Posts: 1576 Good Answers: 20	#4 Re: Rebooting the UK's Oldest Computer 09/07/2009 1:36 AM
	You really need a challenge to reboot that or you have tons of Free Electric Power. __________________ If you never do anything you never have problems.

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