Computers in the media

From: Michael Maginnis <celt_at_chisp.net>
Date: Thu Jun 24 05:39:20 1999

What about this one? Anyone remember the computer-room scene in
Scanners? What were the mainframes? Just mock-ups? And what about the
terminals...

Mike

Max Eskin wrote:
>
> On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> >Yeah, in Ben Kingsley's office. However, the interface is boring old
> >Windows 3.1, if you look closely. :-)
>
> Here's an interesting one: does anyone know the name of the machine in Die
> Hard? There is one scene where there is a gunfight inside the computer
> room (sob, sob), and there is a weird looking bunch of machines. Perhaps
> they're just props, but I'm not sure.
>
> One epsiode of "Family Matters" featured an Apple //c. _The Secret of My
> Success_ and _Ghost_ (and I'm sure many others) have a few shots with dumb
> terminals which I haven't seen before.
>
> --Max Eskin (max82_at_surfree.com)
> http://scivault.hypermart.net: Ignorance is Impotence - Knowledge is Power
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