Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!helios.ee.lbl.gov!ncis.tis.llnl.gov!lll-winken!bert.llnl.gov!howell From: howell@bert.llnl.gov (Louis Howell) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Wanted: easter eggs Message-ID: <64470@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Date: 11 Jul 90 22:11:27 GMT References: <9007081641.AA25236@volitans.MorningStar.Com> <31567@cup.portal.com> <7777@fy.sei.cmu.edu> <53575@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <7776@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> <1134@carol.fwi.uva.nl> <7627@orca.wv.tek.com> <8639@ubc-cs.UUCP> Sender: usenet@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV Reply-To: howell@bert.llnl.gov (Louis Howell) Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lines: 29 X-Local-Date: 11 Jul 90 15:11:27 PDT In article <8639@ubc-cs.UUCP>, buckland@cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca (Tony Buckland) writes: |>In article <7627@orca.wv.tek.com> alanj@nevermore.WV.TEK.COM (Alan Jeddeloh) writes: |> Let me put this as a trivia question for people who have seen the |> modern classic movies on a theme dear to our hearts. |> Given that we had a duplex (two large boxes like the guardians |> of a temple avenue [there's a clue in there]) machine at the |> time (a few years after I started work, i.e. before some of you were |> out of kindergarten), why did I reward a certain illegal parameter |> setting with the message ``There is another system"? I'll bite. The reference is to the movie "Colossus: The Forbin Project". At the point in the movie where Colossus deduces the existence of Guardian, it refuses to cooperate with the humans and keeps flashing ``There is another system'' on all of the screens. Afraid I can't guess just which illegal parameter setting you use to trigger this, though. Been years since I've seen the movie, and that was in the middle of an SF marathon so I wasn't exactly watching for every detail. We'll know we've got a working associative memory when it can trigger on connections like this as fast as a human. Another trivia question. If you type P1 to your shell, how *should* it respond? Louis Howell #include