Vintage computers in movies

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Date: Wed Dec 13 02:15:38 2000

> > What was the computer they used in Weird Science? Didn't they use something
> > unusual in Ferris Buhler's Day Off(did I spell his last name correctly?)
>
> I'm nearly certain Ferris had an IBM PC of some sort, and that the
> computer in Weird Science was a Commodore, of the VIC-20 or C=64 variety.
>
> It'd be worth independent verification. My memory is like one of
> those... oh... er... those things with the holes in.

Yeah, Ferris had a PC.

The Mac Plus showed up in Star Trek IV.

Apparently, numerous European movies use the C64 as props, I'm told.

I'm also told that Jewel of the Nile has some CBM 600s/B128s in it but
I haven't seen that movie in ages. Must go dig it up.

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