At 11:21 AM -0500 4/18/05, Keys wrote:
While working the flea market this weekend I picked a
VHS copy
WarGames and watched it Sunday afternoon. It was strange to watch
the many shots of mainframes that were in the movie but I notice
none seem to be in air condition rooms? One looks like a 360 or 370
system and another shot may be a minicomputer with all the disk/tape
drives and printers.
It's been a long time since I've watched that movie so my memory is
hazy. However I can say that some of the scenes were shot in the CSU
Long Beach computer center while (or just after) I was there. At the
time there was a CDC (could have been a 3150 or 6600, I no longer
remember) and a PDP-11/70. As I recall, the CDC was visible in
several shots; I don't recall the /70 being shown. I can assure you,
the machines were indeed air conditioned.
There was another shot (or several) of a "technician"; don't remember
the character's name. This was shot just outside the machine room in
what was at the time an analyst cubicle area. (Our actual technician
room was not used; it was pretty small.)
John