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True. Most likely it's just because the IMSAI is so photogenic from the standpoint of looking like a hacker machine. True. And if you look the 'behind the desk' scenes, where you're looking at the back of the monitor like when he and Jennifer are coming in the room you'll see a logic probe and some tools sitting on the desk next to the keyboard. I think the intention was hackeresqueness but considering that even in '83 after the peak of the IMSAI and Altair and so on, not many people could afford a system like that. But keep in mind movie people aren't used to thinking on the level of REAL people. =-) It's like Whiz Kids (anyone remember that show featuring the same kid who played Albert on Little House on the Prairie with computers and hackers?) on CBS in maybe 84 or 85. In the opening to the show they pan around this hacker kids bedroom and he's got EASILY what 20-30-40000 dollars worth of hardware? Robot arms...color displays...S100 boxes, disk drives all over the place, voice synthesizers, light pens...all high end gear. It just looked goofy! The story line though was that his father had divorced his mom and the father felt bad so he bought all the equipment for the kid to rewin his favor. The father had some high-end job someplace such that he could afford it. Speaking of which, I would LOVE to have copies of episodes of Whiz Kids. I have virtually every hacker/computer movie ever made, except a few. In addition, I'd like to have episodes of Riptide on tape, which also featured a hacker as a main character along with a goofy robot. No Knight Rider thank you...intelligent cars just don't trip my trigger. Anthony Clifton - WireHead Prime