War Games

Ok, I went out and rented _War Games_ because I'm a total nerd and wanted to see David's IMSAI. I noticed a couple interesting things in the movie. First, in one scene early on where david is sitting in front of his computer, they show it head on, and you can see sitting on top of his monitor his modem, which had on it "IMSAI 212A MODEM". Did IMSA, in fact, manufacture a 1200 baud modem? He also had an IMSAI labeled keyboard! A neat thing: at the end of the movie during the credits they get to thanking those who provided technical assistance. The first company listed is none other than "CompuPro Division, Godbout Electronics". Very cool! Others listed were Televideo, Fischer-Freitas (why does that sound familiar and did I get the Fischer part right?), Memorex, Qume, and about 10 others. Anyway, pretty cool flick. It combines elements of hacking, phreaking (where he grounds the microphone on the old ground-start payphone, a real ball-sy scene since that was a real-life trick you could pull in those days) and of course classic computers! Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Historian, Programmer, Musician, Philosopher, Athlete, Writer, Jackass Attend the First Annual Vintage Computer Festival See http://www.siconic.com/vcf for details!