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The Bass-o-matic comes from a Saturday Night Live "commercial" done by Dan Aykroyd in 1976.
The "Bass-O-Matic" is really just a blender that a whole fish is dropped into and turned into a "drink."
<br /><br /> Bass-O-Matic was also used as the name of the symmetric-key cipher designed by Phil Zimmermann as part of his email encryption software, PGP (in the first release, version 1.0).
It turned out that Bass-O-Matic had some serious weaknesses, so it was replaced by International_Data_Encryption_Algorithm(IDEA) for subsequent versions of Pretty_Good_Privacy(PGP).
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