Talk:Bomb (icon)

Scope of this article
This article seems accurate in the Mac history sense, but it's wrong to imply that this is an original symbol. The fuse bomb has been the iconic bomb for many decades. Twinxor t 06:30, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

The Mac game Jewelbox (a remake of Sega's Columns) has a very special bomb. - What does that even mean and what does it have to do with the article?

Where does the information with the reboot message come from? Even on a new system there’s the typical kernel panic black overlay on the screen. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.65.107.97 (talk) 17:13, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Merging the articles
I believe these articles should be merged. They are both short and are about the use of bombs in computing. Citizen-13 (talk) 21:01, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

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Reasons why the original Atari ST mushroom clouds were changed
The very first version of TOS used mushroom clouds; this was quickly changed, as it was considered politically incorrect.

Is there a source for this, because the other place I hit on google was reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/atarist/comments/327xb9/a_tos_version_that_did_not_show_bombs_when_it/

Where one of the developers (probably/maybe) states the change was due to some people thinking they were trees.

--15:27, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

A Paper Clip to Reboot?
I don't believe, (contra the caption of the Mac bomb box) Macs were ever rebooted a with a paperclip.

We used paper clips to eject floppies and the early Macs (SE era) had a programming switch. - I believe from the IICX on there were restart switches the case.

I didn't want to correct it because it was a long time ago and memories get fuzzy, but I also did several Duck Duck Go searches and could find no mention of it.

I believe this to be very wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.69.121.31 (talk) 18:17, 1 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Yeah, there's some serious editorializing going on in that blurb. Bending up a paperclip was how you got a 3.5" floppy disk out of the drive if the system didn't want to eject it. That was pretty rare, as even if the system bombed, holding the mouse button down on restart resulted in the computer attempting to eject all floppies without even reading them.


 * Forced resets were achieved with the "programming switch", a plastic piece with "interrupt" and "reset" buttons, snapped into the left rear air vent grating, which depressed buttons on the edge of the digital boards. These came with every mac from the 128K to the SE* series. Some later models, like the Mac II, had updated plastic with bigger buttons.


 * The interrupt button would generate an NMI, which would bomb the OS out if you were on a stock Mac, but would drop into the Macsbug debugger if you had it installed. Shoving a paperclip into the vent grill was very much discouraged, as the left side had the analog board as well, which had high voltages. -- 216.168.41.203 (talk) 03:19, 21 October 2021 (UTC)