War Games

From: kevan_at_heydon.org <(kevan_at_heydon.org)>
Date: Tue Sep 23 12:17:40 1997

Sam wrote:
>
> Maybe they chose an IMSAI because not many people in the general public
> had one at that point (most people had Apples or TRS-80s or what-not) and
> they wanted to make David's exploits more plausible by the fact that he
> had this big, powerful looking computer with lights and switches on it?
>

I guess for similar reasons they used a Memotech MTX512 as the computer
that generated the woman in the film Weird Science. I don't think that
the Memotech range ever made it to the US so it would have appeared as
some sort of powerfull computer - certainly the graphics it was shown
to display were well beyond its capabilities.

-- 
Kevan
Old Computer Collector: http://staff.motiv.co.uk/~kevan/
Received on Tue Sep 23 1997 - 12:17:40 BST

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