Strange happening!

Just had a strange happening - I was working on an Excel spreadsheet with Backup running in the background. When suddenly the screen went grey (I could still see through it to what I had been working on), no cursor and a message that I needed to reboot my machine with instructions in the center of the screen in English, French, Spanish?, and Japanese telling me to right the Start button, or the Reboot button. There was a white logo in the background which I didn't recognize.
I had no choice - I hit the start button - the computer restarted, went through it's usual routine, seems to have opened fine and seems to be running fine - however it sure felt like I was being hijacked.
I'm on a G4, OS 10.9.3
I called Apple but since the machine is so "old" they won't answer ANY questions without me buying a service contract good for 5 days! The only advice I got was to contact one of the discussion groups - so here I am.
Anybody got any ideas what happened?
Judith

Hello Judith and welcome to discussions,
What you have experienced is a Kernel panic. Serious but not fatal!
See here for more information ( With thanks to A Brody )
Dont Panic
( with apologies to hitch hikers across the galaxy every where )
Post back if you need more.
Regards
Ian
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