I think that the computer in Wierd Science was a Memotech FDX 500.
Rich
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From: Cameron Kaiser [mailto:spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 11:39 AM
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Vintage computers in movies
> >> > 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.
> >
> >Yeah, Ferris had a PC.
>
> The script at http://members.tripod.com/~MrHyde/ferris.txt claims:
>
> 52 INT. FERRIS' ROOM : Ferris is at his Macintosh computer. He
> has his record up on the screen.
>
> FERRIS
> I wanted a car. I got a computer. How's
> that for being born under a bad sign?
I distinctly remember that computer having a 5.25" floppy, and that doesn't
sound like a Mac to me :-)
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