VCF Nerd Trivia Challenge Questions & Answers

From: John Lawson <jpl15_at_netcom.com>
Date: Sat Oct 3 21:43:19 1998

On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Jim Strickland wrote:

> A cray 1 was not, or at least not the only computer used to render the graphics
> in Last Starfighter. A friend of my wife's worked for the company that DID
> the graphics, and she told me once what it was, and it was NOT a Cray.
>
> A Cray was used to render Tron, if memory serves, however.

  IIRC; the main graphics machine was a Perkin-Elmer device..
somewhere I have that description of it... they were one of the
hi-thruput also-rans that dropped out via natural selection. P/E are
also the folks who brought you the only-slightly-out-of-spec Hubble
telescope Mirror.



  Cheers

John
Received on Sat Oct 03 1998 - 21:43:19 BST