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Rebooting the UK's Oldest Computer

09/04/2009 3:43 AM
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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
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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

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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.

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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.

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