Frode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> worked out the number of different Sam displays:

> You forget the fact that 8 bits gives 256 combinations.
> You also forget that with 2 bytes you have 256*256 = 65536 bytes.
> All in all:
> 
> 24576 ^ 256 == mindboglingly big number.

About 

9351187777141846717362003195896738271040212495937994454107040574645424\
9245583443144322594038615003054842927068519724841126783110723195570889\
8073941758203682829051836783526082116120845407201759722475042071211560\
0051820410473294365872119497694873928431555325898826342262468667422042\
2852196737838879614366422783973620814238641904863261964446865903186080\
7455953887226021889720061428416373343200437382087705581198547064529225\
3550459291381331398851539017358529182374094989392063289433103469274152\
6205674885141662403202143111832441851107463071300551009443599065490731\
4652447357070704841164487732891937439483160046299522548952919047375542\
1596882234816026329795540042590173007601641561398620919208634918060613\
2621241140211894019420900505496225806614635801683076455586945239225701\
8538812059410157575101186908723092259939204970874689912629685428920404\
4077613144175923580434854886193797803777168194869650177972994520299274\
2708534660020398310621495922409002440038789999118300472972282788357343\
5925396360900365327574891133946679268472191285160158273673577663775256\
4576141238441649390326877239665074370230630060419837956338016233599900\
0576

give or take a few googols.

Shouldn't take long to try all of those on a Sam. Just remember to put the
Sam in a warm place (got to defend against those Ice Ages, ya know) and
pay for a reliable maintenance contract for your UPS.

/<eith
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Only kidding

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