On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, McFadden, Mike wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what kind of computers were in the movie "Colossus the
> Forbin Project (1969)". I found a pointer and I vaguely remember the movie,
> but I don't remember the computers. U.S. and Russia develop computers to
> control nuclear weapons, the computers take over.
>
> http://www.stanford.edu/~mgritter/colossus.html
Well... Control Data was credited with providing the equipment, tho
various people have observed that there appeared to be some IBM'ish
console scattered about in various places, then the 'Selectric' terminals
on the stations in the 'Colossus Programming Office', and the ASR-33
Teletypes from various scenes. (White House briefing room, etc.)
Then, in the mountain and some consoles in the CPO was seen various
Tektronix items, specifically some 'scopes running displays and some Tek
'Digital Units' which are basically signal memorys for the scopes. I have
one of these units in my collection.
Somewhere in the archives I've got some of the original studio 'press
kits' on the movie which as I recall address some of these
questions. I'll see if I can locate them.
-jim
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