Vintage computers in movies

From: Jim Strickland <jim_at_calico.litterbox.com>
Date: Thu Dec 14 02:32:03 2000

>
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Ernest wrote:
>
> > >Televideo TS-802 -Pretty in Pink
> > >AT&T 6300 -Secret to My Success
> > >IMSAI -Wargames
> > >HP-150 -Real Genius
> > >GE Differential Analyzer (UCLA) -When Worlds Collide
> > >Thinking Machines CM-5 -Jurrasic Park
> > >Memotech FDX500 or MTX512 -Weird Science
> > >Mac Plus -Star Trek IV
> > >VAX 11/750 with IBM 3290 plasma display panels -some independant film (?)
>
> More for your list. I hope you compile this so we can just refer to it
> the next time someone asks this :)
>
> Apple //c - that movie where the kids dream about some schematic of
> some gizmo that they then build and it allows them to travel
> through space without feeling any inertia and they build a
> spacecraft and fly to some alien ship and meet some kid aliens
> (I always forget the damn name of this movie)
> Apple //c - 2010
> Beverly Hills cops has some specific model of an IBM PS/2 (I think). I
> posted this one before.

I've heard that Haywood Floyds computer in 2010 is an apple 2 c with the LCD
screen attached. Don't remember it well enough to know for sure.

>
> I know more but my "personal computer" is currently not functioning at
> optimal parameters.
>
> And I still haven't figured out what that computer is in _Electric
> Dreams_, although I suspect it's a kludged up dealy for visual effect.
>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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>


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Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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