Vintage computers in movies

From: Gene Buckle <geneb_at_deltasoft.com>
Date: Wed Dec 20 10:34:49 2000

> > what's even more pathetic is that a commercial is running here advertising
> > best buy/compusa or something like that that shows two guys playing at a game
> > console in a store and it's making atari2600 pacman sounds! Its always
>
> Yeah, I know which one you're talking about! But I guess in some lame way
> it pays homage to the fact that everyone recognizes that sound, and will
> associate it with old computer-like stuff (well, except for the younger
> ones among us).

I have the habit of sitting bolt upright and saying "That's from an X!"
when I hear a familiar noise. The two most common sounds I hear
"computers" in movies make is either a ST-225 seeking or a TRS-80 Model I
floppy drive reading a disk under TRSDOS. I say TRSDOS because for
whatever reason, no other DOS made the drives make that scraping noise.
(at least Multidos and Newdos/Newdos-80 didn't)

g.
Received on Wed Dec 20 2000 - 10:34:49 GMT