In article <2sgml7F1k5naqU1@uni-berlin.de>, sailracer6@yahoo.com says...
> Josef 'Jupp' Schugt wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Interestingly, I had read a while back that "Error Code 601" in Evangelion
> is a reference to the BBC series "The Prisoner" in a Slashdot comment:

The "601" is definitely an Andromeda Stain reference.  Even the typeface 
used was similar.

allan
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