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Blinkenlights on the NSA's FROSTBURG supercomputer from the 1990s Typical LED pattern of a Thinking Machines CM-5. The Connection Machine, a 65 536-processor parallel computer designed in the mid-1980s, was a black cube with one side covered with a grid of red blinkenlights; the sales demo had them evolving Conway's Game of Life patterns.
Burn-in on a monitor, when severe as in this "please wait" message, is visible even when the monitor is switched off. Screen burn-in, image burn-in, ghost image, or shadow image, is a permanent discoloration of areas on an electronic visual display such as a cathode-ray tube (CRT) in an older computer monitor or television set.
orange ball, containing a flashing light or now sometimes surrounded by a flashing disc of LEDs, mounted on a post at each end of a zebra crossing (q.v.); named after the UK Minister of Transport Leslie Hore-Belisha who introduced them in 1934. bell-end the glans penis (slang, vulgar), a term of abuse. berk, burk or burke
In a typical digital on-screen graphic, the station's logo appears in a corner of the screen (in this simulated example, the bottom-right) A digital on-screen graphic , digitally originated graphic ( DOG , bug , [ 1 ] network bug , or screenbug ) is a watermark-like station logo that most television broadcasters overlay over a portion of the ...
Furnace Green is one of 14 neighbourhoods in Crawley in West Sussex, England, and a local government ward.Furnace Green is located to the east of the town centre. It is bordered by Tilgate to the south west, Three Bridges to the north and Maidenbower to the east (on the other side of the London-Brighton railway line and linked by two pedestrian tunnels).
Home Improvement is an American sitcom television series created by Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra, and David McFadzean and starring Tim Allen that originally aired on ABC from September 17, 1991, to May 25, 1999. A total of 204 22-minute episodes were produced, spanning 8 seasons. Series overview Season Episodes Originally released Rank Viewers (millions) First released Last released 1 24 ...
An IBM computer with a green monochrome monitor Early Nixdorf computer with an amber monitor. A monochrome monitor is a type of computer monitor in which computer text and images are displayed in varying tones of only one color, as opposed to a color monitor that can display text and images in multiple colors.
The clock could be set by using a combination of buttons provided on the VCR in a specific sequence that was found complicated by most users. As a result, VCR users were known to seldom set the time on the VCR clock. This resulted in the default time of '12:00' blinking on the VCR display at all times of the day, which is the origin of this term.