VCF Nerd Trivia Challenge Questions & Answers

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Sun Oct 4 03:01:52 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.

Can you find out what the computer actually was then?

> A Cray was used to render Tron, if memory serves, however.

According to our research, it was a PDP-10 (see the next question after).

Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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