War Games

From: Captain Napalm <spc_at_armigeron.com>
Date: Tue Sep 23 20:22:22 1997

It was thus said that the Great Sam Ismail once stated:
>
> On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Anthony Clifton wrote:
>
> > I think they wanted the computer to look more hackeresque. In the
> > screenplay, David built his computer from junk, cobbling it together over
> > time, kinda hard to cobble an Apple case and motherboard over time.
>
> Then how come everything he had was IMSAI brand name (CPU, modem, disk
> drives, keyboard)? If they wanted it to seem like he cobbled it together
> they should have had him with an IMSAI CPU, a CompuPro dual 8" disk drive
> unit, a VT-100 terminal, some funky Racal-Vadic modem, etc.

  The way I heard it (rats, I can't remember the source, but it is one of
those books about the history of microcomputers like _Hackers_ (not that
one) or _Fire in the Valley_ (not that one either)) was that IMSAI gave the
production company the computers for free publicity. Of course, when the
movie came out, IMSAI was pretty much Chapter 11 anyway (US slang for "out
of business") ...

  -spc (Surprised that _Wiz Kids_ haven't made a come back, with the
        Internet hype and all ... 8-/
Received on Tue Sep 23 1997 - 20:22:22 BST