Three Days of the Condor

From: ben franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Mon Dec 15 11:44:58 2003

Sergio Pedraja Cabo wrote:
> Yes, one of my preferred movies about spies of the seventies.
> Some teletypes, terminals and even Dectapes, i think.
>
> Another interesting movie with some old computing items
> is "The Falcon and the Snowman" (music of Pat Metheny and
> David Bowie, with Sean Penn and Timothy Hutton). There are
> some scenes of Hutton in one room of the CIA using old
> teletypes ASR33.
>
> In Science Fiction field, I like two movies specially with
> some computing interaction: "Colossus", and
> "The Andromeda Strain".

But in Andromeda Stain the TTY played a major part in the movie.
Never did see Colossus.
Received on Mon Dec 15 2003 - 11:44:58 GMT

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