14 Dec
2003
14 Dec
'03
10:01 p.m.
On 14 Dec 2003, Tom Jennings wrote:
... opens with some very pretty PDP-8 stuff, a VT52?,
a woman mounting
dectapes....
The movie of course!
What else ;-) I've recorded it on a SVHS tape for better quality. You can
even see the woman verifying the start address of 7605 (or was it 7600?)
before pressing CONT.
Another interesting movie is "The angry red planet", a SF movie from the
late fifties. The main computer on board of the space craft is a huge
Borroughs tube computer, with operator console and reel tape drives. It's
fun to see the tubes glowing, at least you get that impression and to
watch the tapes moving.
Does anybody know the model of the computer?
Christian