Vintage computers in movies

From: Geoff Roberts <geoffrob_at_stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au>
Date: Thu Dec 14 07:18:50 2000

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Strickland" <jim_at_calico.litterbox.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: Vintage computers in movies


> >
> > 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.

I remember seeing my personal favourite, (a Vax 6000) in a kids movie a
couple months back.
Can't remember the title, but they are in a basement lab of some kind,
controlling the movement of
some ice hockey players above. The Vax is just there in the background, not
switched on.

I also remember seeing a list of stuff like this on a web site somewhere.
It was a REALLY BIG list too.
Darn it, must remember to bookmark stuff like that...

Cheers

Geoff
Received on Thu Dec 14 2000 - 07:18:50 GMT