6 Jul
2009
6 Jul
'09
9:51 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 6 Jul 2009 at 14:49, Pontus wrote:
Indeed, someone went a little overboard with product placement in that movie,
compare the front panel shown in the movie (last photo on web site above) and
that shown in a photo on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_200
cool looking machine. This is a great site for
this topic:
http://starringthecomputer.com/feature.php?f=40
The shot of the IBM 029 with the logo carefully taped over with a
"HONEYWELL" sticker is pretty funny. Given that (as evidenced by the
closing credits) the whole setup was provided by Honeywell, there was
no way that the name "IBM" would ever be permitted to appear in the
film.