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Re: REDO FROM START. I'm pretty sure the original was more accurate; the new version doesn't compute, anyway. But then, it's only annotation. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 21:39, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
Broken umbrella with herrings: some kind of antenna?
I still wonder about the beach ball thing that goes parp, though.
--[[User:Confusion|Confusion]] ([[User talk:Confusion|talk]]) 20:18, 27 November 2012 (PST)


Re: GBL and FTB. In some data centers its typical to refer to the rebooting/starting up of a server by using the BRB or Big Red Button, as certain brands of equipment featured a physical Big Red Button on the front panel. - Normally noted down in the logs as something like "Serverxxxx crashed, BRB resolved". Apparently used to make the simple task of flipping a switch sound more technical when questioned by non-IT staff. FTB may also imply the roundworld FPU or floating-point unit, which back in late 80's was an extra chip that could be installed in certain computers to speed up certain types of operation.
Amusingly, a prototype computer-like structure has in fact been built which is driven by soldier crabs. It has a long way to go before becoming complex enough to rival conventional PC's, but the idea shows promise. Scuttling crabs powering a low-tech computer...  Google on [[http://www.i-programmer.info/news/112-theory/4071-a-crab-based-computer.html|Lucy Black and “A Crab-Based Computer”]] There is also a Java program called "Shellfish".[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] ([[User talk:AgProv|talk]]) 16:33, 14 August 2014 (UTC)


The constant adding of new parts or upgrades could also be a not-so-veiled nod to Moore's law regarding the doubling of CPU performance every 18 months, and that it's common to upgrade PCs piecemeal, by adding or replacing new hardware - especially where IT geeks and gamers are concerned and the original PC started life as a bunch of components waiting to be assembled rather than a branded box from the local PC world.--[[User:Megahurts|Megahurts]] 11:10, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
The cookie thing is not a virus its from UK GEC computers used for telecom engineering such as system x. It was based on the idea of fortune cookies and besides the syntax described had commands to add to the database via the bake command
The reason I haven't referenced in main text is because its hear-say. I was told it many years ago by an ex-GEC engineer who was working in the city using the then ultra new operating system from IBM/Microsoft OS/2 version 1 [[User:Big Kate|Big Kate]] ([[User talk:Big Kate|talk]]) 14:47, 10 February 2017 (UTC)


== Name ==
The android in Red Dwarf (Kryten) who briefly called himself 'Rameses Niblick III Kerplunk Kerplunk Whoops! Where's My Thribble?' did so as a result of external trauma, i.e. an axe being forcibly buried into his 'spinal column', rather than computer senility. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOE7qTAK87o] [[User:Lhspanner|Lhspanner]] 23:17, 31 October 2019 (GMT)


i was just reading science of discworld and encountered High Energy Magic building being shortened to HEM and started wondering if HEX was a abbrivation too or just hex with uppercase letters.
== GBL ==
:Shades of HAL maybe? --[[User:Megahurts|Megahurts]] 10:08, 11 March 2010 (UTC)


Also HEX as the common abbreviation for ''hexadecimal'' and HEX = ''spell'' or ''curse''. No acronym. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 23:51, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
The "GBL" makes me think of the great big lever on the side of vintage antique one-arm bandits, the ones before the boring electronic ones with lots of buttons and lights and nudges and all that. When you pull it, all the wheels spin like crazy before settling down one by one ... reminiscent of Hex much? --[[User:Lias Bluestone|Lias Bluestone]] ([[User talk:Lias Bluestone|talk]]) 22:59, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
 
== Some facts, possibly annotation material ==
 
A self-aware ant colony appears in Douglas R. Hofstatter's book Gödel, Escher, Bach. This might have been one inspiration for the anthill in a self-aware computer.
 
"Redo from start" was an error given by early BASIC interpreters on the IBM PC (ROM basic, basica) if on an INPUT statement expecting a number one typed something which couldn't be parsed as numbers. --[[Special:Contributions/93.134.82.77|93.134.82.77]] 09:26, 9 February 2011 (CET)

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Broken umbrella with herrings: some kind of antenna? I still wonder about the beach ball thing that goes parp, though. --Confusion (talk) 20:18, 27 November 2012 (PST)

Amusingly, a prototype computer-like structure has in fact been built which is driven by soldier crabs. It has a long way to go before becoming complex enough to rival conventional PC's, but the idea shows promise. Scuttling crabs powering a low-tech computer... Google on [Black and “A Crab-Based Computer”] There is also a Java program called "Shellfish".AgProv (talk) 16:33, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

The cookie thing is not a virus its from UK GEC computers used for telecom engineering such as system x. It was based on the idea of fortune cookies and besides the syntax described had commands to add to the database via the bake command The reason I haven't referenced in main text is because its hear-say. I was told it many years ago by an ex-GEC engineer who was working in the city using the then ultra new operating system from IBM/Microsoft OS/2 version 1 Big Kate (talk) 14:47, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

The android in Red Dwarf (Kryten) who briefly called himself 'Rameses Niblick III Kerplunk Kerplunk Whoops! Where's My Thribble?' did so as a result of external trauma, i.e. an axe being forcibly buried into his 'spinal column', rather than computer senility. [1] Lhspanner 23:17, 31 October 2019 (GMT)

GBL

The "GBL" makes me think of the great big lever on the side of vintage antique one-arm bandits, the ones before the boring electronic ones with lots of buttons and lights and nudges and all that. When you pull it, all the wheels spin like crazy before settling down one by one ... reminiscent of Hex much? --Lias Bluestone (talk) 22:59, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

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