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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, in the nation formerly known as Great Britain. Kettle's on. Posts: 32175 Good Answers: 839	Rebooting the UK's Oldest Computer 09/04/2009 3:43 AM
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user-deleted-1105 Guru Join Date: May 2007 Location: Harlow England Posts: 16512 Good Answers: 670	#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.
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Slow Old Poop Guru Join Date: May 2008 Location: Cedar Rapids Iowa USA Posts: 506 Good Answers: 13	#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 __________________ Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.--Tom Lehrer
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snygolfgs Power-User Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Endless Mountains of NE Pa, USA Posts: 298 Good Answers: 20	#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. __________________ Courage is not the absence of fear, but the inner resolve to rise above it....or the inane lapse in judgement brought on by copious imbibitions....Egre Flagrus
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dadw5boys Guru Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Piney Flats, Tennessee Posts: 1740 Good Answers: 23	#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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