On Thu, 8 May 1997, James Willing wrote:
> On Thu, 8 May 1997, Ward Griffiths and/or Lisa Rogers wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 May 1997, James Willing wrote:
> > > On the other hand, Roy Scheider's character (Dr. Haywood Floyd) is seen
> > > using an Apple IIc with the optional (and very expensive at the time) LCD
> > > display while sitting on the beach in the movie "2010: The Year We Make
> > Well, something tells me that the cost of the LCD display, however high
> > it was, would have been peanuts in the prop and special effects budget.
>
> True enough with regard to movie production budgets (and probably that
> Apple traded gear for screen time/credits), but it was REAL hard to sell
> a 'screen' that cost nearly as much as the computer in the 'real world'.
> B^}
Yah. Priced any 21" monitors lately? [I have _got_ to get me one. And a
smart video/keyboard/mouse switch to cut down at least a little bit on the
amount of desk surface I need. Not that this applies to any of the systems
that we care about in this mailing list, except for a switch system to
select which of half a dozen or more devices want channel 3 on the TV.]
--
Ward Griffiths
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within
the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." --Claire Wolfe
Received on Thu May 08 1997 - 11:08:39 BST