3 Aug
2010
3 Aug
'10
1:20 p.m.
From: Tim Shoppa
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 3:58 AM
Mark wrote:
> At 22:17 -0500 8/2/10, Tim wrote:
>> Tim "Excessive force in the apprehension
of abused acronyms has been
>> approved" Shoppa.
> Ah! a quote from one of my favorites - "The
Big Blues Brothers"
Of course the Blues Brothers had their own computer
acronym:
SCMODS = State County and Municipal Offender Data System
pronounced Skamods with a distinct tone of disdain by
Elwood IIRC.
It was real, if not necessarily accurately portrayed.
The cop car terminals looked pretty slick for 1980.
Almost like mobile PLATO
terminals with their orange plasma display. Maybe it was an actual
Motorola product? Of course Motorola and PLATO were also suburban
Chicago/Illinois tie-ins :-). And the mall that gets destroyed, I have
been told, was (previous to being a mall) one of the Teletype factories
in Skokie.
Actually, it was a defunct, bankrupt shopping mall in a southwest suburb,
standing in for a non-existent shopping mall in the northwest suburb of
Park Ridge.[1]
At least, that's what we all knew in Chicago when the movie came out.
[1] Suburban Chicago is divided into Near North, Far North, Northwest,
Western, Southwest, and South.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
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