Hi!

Some days ago I bought 'The Andromeda Strain' (a 33 year old movie)
on DVD. Brief sketch of the beginning of the story: A space probe
crashes in the middle of a remote New Mexico village. All but two
people in the village die - seemingly due to an infection. To find
out how to fight against the postulated 'Andromeda' strain the
subterranean high-tech 'Wildfire' laboratory is used that (no
surprise, we are in the middle of cold war) has been built for B
weapon research. During the analysis of the reproduction of the
Andromeda strain the computer faces an input overload and displays '601'.

I tried to find out if there is a computer system that actually
displays this error message. In our irreal universe such system
seemingly does not exist but in the real universe of NGE it does (to
be more precise: it will exist) - in the fifth Evangelion episode
"Rei I", the same error code is displayed on a computer console
operated by Dr. Ritsuko Akagi.

Believe me, I was a completely surprised to come across NGE in the
middle of nowhere (which is a good description of the location of the
'Wildfire' laboratory).

The Andromeda DVD also surprised me in another way: I always thought
that DVDs can either be RC-less (RC 0) or have a specific RC (RC 1, 
RC 2, etc.) but this must be false: Andromeda has RCs 2 *and* 4.

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt