8 May
1997
8 May
'97
1:02 a.m.
On Wed, 7 May 1997, James Willing wrote:
On the other hand, Roy Scheider's character (Dr.
Haywood Floyd) is seen
using an Apple IIc with the optional (and very expensive at the time) LCD
display while sitting on the beach in the movie "2010: The Year We Make
Contact". (or did I muck the title up?)
Well, something tells me that the cost of the LCD display, however high
it was, would have been peanuts in the prop and special effects budget.
And apparently the idea was to use something that didn't look like it
would be obsolete the week before the movie opened. The month after --
well, that's another story.
--
Ward Griffiths
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within
the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." --Claire Wolfe