War Games

I think it's Malvin not Melvin but I could be wrong. "Do you remember when you asked me to tell you when you were acting rudely and insensitively? Well, you're doing it right now." It sounds EXACTLY like conversations between me and this skinny techno-dweeb I work with. Not ALL of them were wannabes. But I plead the fifth. Trust me. The wannabe Pirate DJs are FAR more pathetic than were the mid 80s hacker wannabes. It's just like anything else. There's a real counter-culture behind the subject but the movie creates a wave of folks who know NOTHING about the reality of the counter-culture and instead just end up adhering to a new set of stereotypes. I don't think so. Not from what I've seen. The technology was too buried under techno music and skateboards. And although it was about hackers even more directly than was Wargames, it gave even LESS realistic information about how to begin than did Wargames. At least wardialers and poor security were REAL things in the 80s. CompuPro boxes were used to drive CRT displays like on David's desk at home while the HP units were used for the big-screen displays in the War Room. Those are CRISP clean lines on those big screens...a raster display did NOT create those. Even the Kobyashi Maru simulator in Star Trek II, which was done with a Digistar vector graphics system (one of which is at the Science Center of Iowa here in Des Moines) didn't look as good as those vector maps of the world in the War Room in Wargames. Now it's possible that CompuPro S100 boxes were being used to DRIVE the HP Vector Graphics displays but those big displays were NOT done on a Microangelo card. I wish I still had the article. It was in an electronics engineering type magazine YEARS ago...like '84 or '85. Speaking of Sandra Bullock in The Net....there were computers in The Net? ;-D Anthony Clifton - WireHead Prime