Believe it or not, all of the war room displays were generated by 4
CompuPro S-100 boxes with MicroAngelo graphics cards; thus the
Godbout/CompuPro inclusion in the credits.
Kai
> ----------
> From: Sam Ismail[SMTP:dastar_at_crl.com]
> Reply To: classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 1997 11:30 PM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: War Games
>
>
> Ok, I went out and rented _War Games_ because I'm a total nerd and
> wanted
> to see David's IMSAI. I noticed a couple interesting things in the
> movie. First, in one scene early on where david is sitting in front
> of
> his computer, they show it head on, and you can see sitting on top of
> his
> monitor his modem, which had on it "IMSAI 212A MODEM". Did IMSA, in
> fact, manufacture a 1200 baud modem? He also had an IMSAI labeled
> keyboard!
>
> A neat thing: at the end of the movie during the credits they get to
> thanking those who provided technical assistance. The first company
> listed is none other than "CompuPro Division, Godbout Electronics".
> Very
> cool! Others listed were Televideo, Fischer-Freitas (why does that
> sound
> familiar and did I get the Fischer part right?), Memorex, Qume, and
> about
> 10 others.
>
> Anyway, pretty cool flick. It combines elements of hacking, phreaking
>
> (where he grounds the microphone on the old ground-start payphone, a
> real
> ball-sy scene since that was a real-life trick you could pull in those
>
> days) and of course classic computers!
>
>
> Sam Alternate e-mail:
> dastar_at_siconic.com
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Received on Tue Sep 23 1997 - 11:56:36 BST