OT: Easter Eggs

[Walter Vaughan]

> Quoting Bob Stockler (Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:39:19 -0500):
>>  Shut her down Scotty, she's sucking mud.
>>
>>I now forget what one had to do to get that written on the screen.
> 
> 
> As I recall, it was generated by the Z80 I/O control processor, which
> would check the stack pointer at the start/end of the main loop.  If
> the pointer changed (which "should never happen") it would display
> that message.
> 
> Note:  I saw the message first-hand at least twice.

All you gotta do is run a (basic?) program that pulled that string out.
Not sure if my 16b has it on the disk still. Might check it out this weekend.

I remember it took quite a few seconds for it to be displayed on the console.