7 May
1997
7 May
'97
7:42 a.m.
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Kai Kaltenbach wrote:
| From: Greg
Mast[SMTP:gmast@polymail.cpunix.calpoly.edu]
| I'm sorry but I can't recall a scene in any movie that
resembles a real
| use of a computer.
There was a pretty good, rather realistic scene in _Patriot Games_ where
Harrison Ford has logged his nemesis' account and is grabbing files full
of evidence, while the other guy frantically tries to delete them.
Hardly. I don't know of an operating system that yanks the file contents off
of your screen when someone else on the network deletes them.
_Ferris Bueller's Day Off_ has Ferris breaking
into his school's system
remotely and changing his grades in a fairly realistic manner.
Hardly. Unless he was using some sort of remote control software (like
PCAnywhere) or the principal was running a BBS, I don't know of a program
that shows someone editing database fields in realtime.
In _Under Siege 2: Dark Territory_, the hero wires
into a broken pay
phone with a Newton and sends an emergency fax. I had a Newton at the
time, and loved this bit.
Hardly...er uh, wait a second. I didn't even see this, and it actually
is very plausible and in fact real.
And _Wargames_ was actually pretty realistic; he had
the IMSAI with
voice synth (probably a CompuTalker) and a demon dialer program, all of
which were acceptable realism for me. Plus, at the time, we all thought
Ally Sheedy was pretty cute.
Yeah. Actually I still think she's cute. I wish I had a cute chick
interested in me when I was a total teenage computer geek (yeah right).
Sam
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