26 Aug
2011
26 Aug
'11
3:02 p.m.
Hi, All,
Due to an off-hand watermelon comment made around the house last
night, I rewatched "Buckaroo Banzai". I already know the computer in
the President's hospital room is a DEC Rainbow 100 (with a
faux-TV-image overlay) and the computer at the Banzai compound is an
CompuPro 8/16 ( http://starringthecomputer.com/feature.php?f=78 ), but
what's that orange-tinted terminal attached to the S-100 box?
-ethan
26 Aug
26 Aug
3:14 p.m.
On 8/26/2011 1:02 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Hi, All,
Due to an off-hand watermelon comment made around the house last
night, I rewatched "Buckaroo Banzai". I already know the computer in
the President's hospital room is a DEC Rainbow 100 (with a
faux-TV-image overlay) and the computer at the Banzai compound is an
CompuPro 8/16 ( http://starringthecomputer.com/feature.php?f=78 ), but
what's that orange-tinted terminal attached to the S-100 box?
The hot line to the USSR !?
-ethan
3:28 p.m.
Due to an off-hand watermelon comment made around the
house last
night, I rewatched "Buckaroo Banzai". ?I already know the computer in
the President's hospital room is a DEC Rainbow 100 (with a
faux-TV-image overlay) and the computer at the Banzai compound is an
CompuPro 8/16 ( http://starringthecomputer.com/feature.php?f=78 ), but
what's that orange-tinted terminal attached to the S-100 box?
-ethan
Not sure about the terminal but the printer is an IDS Prism 132 or
maybe a Dataproducts as they bought the IDS printer division in the
mid 1980s.
The keyboard to the terminal kind of looks like a televideo.
Paxton
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3:33 p.m.
On 8/26/11 12:02 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
what's that orange-tinted terminal attached to the
S-100 box?
It looks like a Vectrix with a Televideo keyboard
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=253&st=1
3:47 p.m.
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
On 8/26/11 12:02 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Thank you for the quick response. I concur as to the resemblance.
The text color seen in the movie is a rather intense color - I'm
guessing it was selected for its striking divergence from the whites
and greens and (by comparison) subtle ambers of the time, but absent
any comments from the director, we may never know the nature of that
detail.
-ethan
what's that orange-tinted terminal attached
to the S-100 box?
It looks like a Vectrix with a Televideo keyboard
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=253&st=1 
4:10 p.m.
What do watermelons have to do with Buckaroo Banzai?
Ethan Dicks wrote:
Hi, All,
Due to an off-hand watermelon comment made around the house last
night, I rewatched "Buckaroo Banzai". I already know the computer in
the President's hospital room is a DEC Rainbow 100 (with a
faux-TV-image overlay) and the computer at the Banzai compound is an
CompuPro 8/16 ( http://starringthecomputer.com/feature.php?f=78 ), but
what's that orange-tinted terminal attached to the S-100 box?
-ethan
4:36 p.m.
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Curt @ Atari Museum
<curt at atarimuseum.com> wrote:
What do watermelons have to do with Buckaroo Banzai?
During a chase scene, the camera pans past a watermelon in a large
hydraulic press. Jeff Goldblum's character asks "why is there a
watermelon there?" The response is simply, "I'll tell you later", and
that's the end of it. Jeff (and the audience) never find out.
-ethan
4:27 p.m.
Its not on that website, but in the very beginning of the rocket car
test drive, there's clearly an Apple ][ being used to generate
graphics. It has the tell-tale 4-lines of text at the bottom of the
screen.
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