6 Nov
2007
6 Nov
'07
7:27 a.m.
Which came first: Tron, or Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan? I remember the star
trek movie had a snippet of CG for the creation of the Genesis planet. I
think both were from 1982, but not sure.
Joe
On 11/6/07, Bryan Pope <bpope at wordstock.com> wrote:
And thusly were the wise words spake by Curt @ Atari Museum
Yeah I liked that comment too which showing banks of removable storage
units... reminds me of the actual line out of Tron where "Flynn"
exclaims "because man, somewhere in one of those 'memories' is the
evidence"
Memories.... you'd have thought with all of the technical staff
they'd have come up with a more proper term that didn't sound so damned
clumsy....
Maybe they were trying to connect it with human memories, since the
programs within the TRON universe had a life of their own?
With all of thie TRON talk, I just happened to have watched TRON
again on Friday, then WarGames. On Saturday I watched Terminator 3.
All three movies seem to have similar storylines...
The first two movies have a mainframe as the big bad computer while
the third uses that idea as a red herring.
Cheers,
Bryan
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> On Sunday 04 November 2007 14:25, Curt - Atari Museum wrote:
>
>> Saw this on YouTube - nice video from 1982 that discusses Tron and
how
>> movies/TV would change due to
Supercomputer based graphics... lots
of
>> great shots of a Cray 1, terminals and
other graphic computer
devices:
>>
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu5_33uRNzc
>>
>
> Neat!
>
> I'm wondering what that multi-colored keyboard was that was being used
near
> the beginning of that. And in the segment
where they're talking about
the
Cray,
those "memory banks" are presumably big honking disk drives?