PDP-11 sighting - "Sliders" pilot

From: Kevin McQuiggin <mcquiggi_at_sfu.ca>
Date: Sat Feb 5 10:34:37 2000

Hi Gang:

Vancouver is a popular venue for TV and movie filmmaking. I've spoken to
prop folks locally and volunteered any of my systems should they have a
show or movie that needs "old computers with spinning tapes and blinking
lights".

No bites (bytes) yet, but it would be neat to get one of my systems into a
movie.

I also have about 20 old radios from the 1920s-30s and have offered them
for props as well.

I'd suggest that others in movie-friendly locales also volunteer, it's a
way of popularizing our hobby!

Kevin

At 12:23 AM 2/5/00 -0800, you wrote:
>
>Hi, all,
>
>I happened to be watching the Sci Fi Channel tonight and caught the re-
>broadcast of the first "Sliders" episode. Quinn has a PDP-11 in his
>basement in San Francisco. It's blurry most of the time, but when he
>opens a worm hole for Wade and Prof. Arturo, the distortion effect brings
>the rack into visible clarity - it appears to be an RX01 or RX02 at the top
>of the rack, over a BA-11N box, CPU unknown. I'm not sure, but underneath
>the BA-11N, the narrow black vertical panels appear similar to the filler
>plates on a MINC-11 system, but that part of the rack wasn't shown as
clearly.
>
>-ethan
>
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