8 May
1997
8 May
'97
3:17 a.m.
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Ward Griffiths and/or Lisa Rogers wrote:
On Wed, 7 May 1997, James Willing wrote:
True enough with regard to movie production budgets (and probably that
Apple traded gear for screen time/credits), but it was REAL hard to sell
a 'screen' that cost nearly as much as the computer in the 'real world'.
B^}
-jim
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On the other hand, Roy Scheider's character
(Dr. Haywood Floyd) is seen
using an Apple IIc with the optional (and very expensive at the time) LCD
display while sitting on the beach in the movie "2010: The Year We Make
Contact". (or did I muck the title up?)
Well, something tells me that the cost of the LCD display, however high
it was, would have been peanuts in the prop and special effects budget.
And apparently the idea was to use something that didn't look like it
would be obsolete the week before the movie opened. The month after --
well, that's another story.