18 Jun
1999
18 Jun
'99
9:39 p.m.
I was just channel surfing and ran across Ghostbusters on STARZ... in their
lab, they have a clearly visible Cromemco System One with a C-10 acting as a
terminal! Totally cool.
I wonder if anybody's ever put together an "old micros spotted in movies"
list.
Kai
18 Jun
18 Jun
10:21 p.m.
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Kai Kaltenbach wrote:
I was just channel surfing and ran across Ghostbusters
on STARZ... in their
lab, they have a clearly visible Cromemco System One with a C-10 acting as a
terminal! Totally cool.
I wonder if anybody's ever put together an "old micros spotted in movies"
list.
No, but it would be cool in a highly geek-like fashion. It has been a
topic of passing interest here on the list many times.
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19 Jun
19 Jun
6:56 a.m.
At 12:21 AM 6/19/99 -0700, you wrote:
Well... I've been (slowly) working up a 'Computers in the Media' section
on my web pages and there are already some movie references, so... (if
there are no objections) I'll start collecting the info and folding it onto
the web pages.
Two new entries so far, so... fire away!
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On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Kai Kaltenbach wrote:
> I was just channel surfing and ran across Ghostbusters on STARZ... in their
> lab, they have a clearly visible Cromemco System One with a C-10 acting
as a
terminal!
Totally cool.
I wonder if anybody's ever put together an "old micros spotted in movies"
list.
No, but it would be cool in a highly geek-like fashion. It has been a
topic of passing interest here on the list many times. 
4:55 p.m.
New subject: Computers in the media
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, James Willing wrote:
Well... I've been (slowly) working up a
'Computers in the Media' section
on my web pages and there are already some movie references, so... (if
there are no objections) I'll start collecting the info and folding it onto
the web pages.
Two new entries so far, so... fire away!
Here's an obscure reference:
The monitor of the TRS-80 was a converted RCA TV set. (Tuner removed and
painted gray). In the early seasons of "Married with children", on the
kitchen counter in the background is one of that model TV.
20 Jun
20 Jun
2:38 a.m.
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New subject: Computers in the media
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, James Willing wrote:
Well... I've been (slowly) working up a
'Computers in the Media' section
on my web pages and there are already some movie references, so... (if
there are no objections) I'll start collecting the info and folding it onto
the web pages.
Two new entries so far, so... fire away!
What about the Atari Portofolio used in Terminator 2 to 'crack' codes?
It's used, and to be recognised without any doubt!
Sander
5:07 a.m.
New subject: Computers in the media
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Sander Ruitenbeek wrote:
What about the Atari Portofolio used in Terminator 2 to
'crack' codes?
It's used, and to be recognised without any doubt!
In Dr. Strangelove, a computer room of some sort is shown, along with a
teletype. I'm not sure if any of this is recognizable. Since it was made
in the '60s, they were probably low-end machines, because mainframes would
take more space than available there.
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8:09 a.m.
New subject: Computers in the media
In Dr. Strangelove, a computer room of some sort is
shown, along with a
teletype. I'm not sure if any of this is recognizable. Since it was made
in the '60s, they were probably low-end machines, because mainframes would
take more space than available there.
Along these lines is any of the Irwin Allen Sci-Fi shows from the 60's.
"Time Tunnel" and "Lost in Space" being the main ones with computer
bits
heavily sprinkled. IIRC, they did sort of a mix and match to make stuff
look impressive.
Hmmmm, was any of the computer bank in "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"
really part of a computer?
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11:09 a.m.
New subject: Computers in the media
Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, James Willing wrote:
Here's another - in a recent episode of the current series of 'Red Dwarf',
the
computer terminal was a C64 keyboard (also notably, it wasn't plugged in), the
copyright notice at the end of the episode was 1998 too :-)
cheers,
Lance
Well... I've been (slowly) working up a
'Computers in the Media' section
on my web pages and there are already some movie references, so... (if
there are no objections) I'll start collecting the info and folding it onto
the web pages.
Two new entries so far, so... fire away!
Here's an obscure reference:
The monitor of the TRS-80 was a converted RCA TV set. (Tuner removed and
painted gray). In the early seasons of "Married with children", on the
kitchen counter in the background is one of that model TV. 
2:15 a.m.
New subject: Computers in the media
And another for you.
Not sure if it would be considered "classic," but still a strange sighting
none the less. In the movice 'Hackers,' Dade Murphy was using a computer
that wasn't really a computer at all... it's sort of a lunchbox-style
device... the monitor/CPU is incredibly similar-looking to a TV that my
friend has... and the keyboard isn't really a keyboard at all. It's a
piece of cardboard. Slow down the film and you can see from a sideways
shot that his hands aren't even touching it -- all the sounds are added on
later. There is a realy keyboard for his "computer" later on in the
movie.. when he spray-paints it green and white.
Also, in thee movie 'Sneakers,' there is a shot of what looks to be a Cray
in strangle colors... but I'm not up on my Crays so maybe it's a Cray in
normal colors... oh well.
Kevin
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23 Jun
23 Jun
1:44 p.m.
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On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Yeah, in Ben Kingsley's office. However, the
interface is boring old
Windows 3.1, if you look closely. :-)
Here's an interesting one: does anyone know the name of the machine in Die
Hard? There is one scene where there is a gunfight inside the computer
room (sob, sob), and there is a weird looking bunch of machines. Perhaps
they're just props, but I'm not sure.
One epsiode of "Family Matters" featured an Apple //c. _The Secret of My
Success_ and _Ghost_ (and I'm sure many others) have a few shots with dumb
terminals which I haven't seen before.
--Max Eskin (max82(a)surfree.com)
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4:26 p.m.
New subject: Computers in the media
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Chuck McManis wrote:
Control Data (some 3000 series mainframe I believe)
Could you tell me more about this machine? It looked so cool, it had to
have something interesting inside.
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24 Jun
24 Jun
6:54 a.m.
New subject: Computers in the media
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Chuck McManis wrote:
At 06:44 PM 6/23/99 -0400, Max wrote:
And in some superman movies, 3
IIRC, there's an IBM-XT with an mda display
showing a fancy "LIST" of a basic program. Woohoo :-)
Sander
Here's an interesting one: does anyone know
the name of the machine in Die
Hard?
Control Data (some 3000 series mainframe I believe) 
9:07 a.m.
New subject: Computers in the media
And in some superman movies, 3 IIRC, there's an
IBM-XT with an mda display
showing a fancy "LIST" of a basic program. Woohoo :-)
My all time favorite is still the 'first boot' sequence in
Robocop ....
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1:39 a.m.
New subject: Computers in the media
What about this one? Anyone remember the computer-room scene in
Scanners? What were the mainframes? Just mock-ups? And what about the
terminals...
Mike
Max Eskin wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Yeah, in Ben Kingsley's office. However, the
interface is boring old
Windows 3.1, if you look closely. :-)
Here's an interesting one: does anyone know the name of the machine in Die
Hard? There is one scene where there is a gunfight inside the computer
room (sob, sob), and there is a weird looking bunch of machines. Perhaps
they're just props, but I'm not sure.
One epsiode of "Family Matters" featured an Apple //c. _The Secret of My
Success_ and _Ghost_ (and I'm sure many others) have a few shots with dumb
terminals which I haven't seen before.
--Max Eskin (max82(a)surfree.com)
http://scivault.hypermart.net: Ignorance is Impotence - Knowledge is Power
3:06 a.m.
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And here's another. In Police Academy 3, their computer room has a
"terminal" that is a C64 that's not plugged in to anything sitting in
front of a monitor molded into a console.
Kevin
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19 Jun
19 Jun
9:21 p.m.
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, James Willing wrote:
Well... I've been (slowly) working up a
'Computers in the Media' section
on my web pages and there are already some movie references, so... (if
there are no objections) I'll start collecting the info and folding it onto
the web pages.
Two new entries so far, so... fire away!
-The DEC Rainbow 100s in the police station in Beverly Hills Cop.
-The Apple //c used in that movie with the kids who discover how to
travel through space in a bubble of energy (I always forget the name).
-Apple //c in 2010
-Psion 3a used in Executive Decision to detonate the bomb (not totally
classic but I'm a big Psion fan)
-Wasn't a Memotech MTX512 used in Weird Sience?
-I think there was an IMSAI 8080 in War Games
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10:18 p.m.
New subject: Computers in the Movies (was Cromemco System 1 in Ghostbusters)
At 11:21 PM 6/19/99 -0700, you wrote:
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, James Willing wrote:
Of course adding all of this to the web page reminded me of the Altair 8800
(painted white, poor thing) mounted in a lab panel in the TV show "The Six
Million Dollar Man". It showed up fairly regularly and I seem to recall
reading in an article somewhere that they actually used it to run the
lighting effects in the 'lab' panels...
-jim
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Well... I've been (slowly) working up a
'Computers in the Media' section
on my web pages and there are already some movie references, so... (if
there are no objections) I'll start collecting the info and folding it onto
the web pages.
-The DEC Rainbow 100s in the police station in Beverly Hills Cop.
-The Apple //c used in that movie with the kids who discover how to
travel through space in a bubble of energy (I always forget the name).
-Apple //c in 2010
-Psion 3a used in Executive Decision to detonate the bomb (not totally
classic but I'm a big Psion fan)
-Wasn't a Memotech MTX512 used in Weird Sience?
-I think there was an IMSAI 8080 in War Games 
20 Jun
20 Jun
3:08 a.m.
Sellam Ismail wrote:
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, James Willing wrote:
The Explorers
Well... I've been (slowly) working up a
'Computers in the Media' section
on my web pages and there are already some movie references, so... (if
there are no objections) I'll start collecting the info and folding it onto
the web pages.
Two new entries so far, so... fire away!
-The DEC Rainbow 100s in the police station in Beverly Hills Cop.
-The Apple //c used in that movie with the kids who discover how to
travel through space in a bubble of energy (I always forget the name). 
5:57 a.m.
At 23:21 19-06-1999 -0700, you wrote:
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, James Willing wrote:
> Well... I've been (slowly) working up a 'Computers in the Media'
section
> on my web pages and there are already some movie references, so... (if
> there are no objections) I'll start collecting the info and folding it
<snip>
Bit of trivia with 'Ghostbusters,' and also the series 'Stargate: SG-1.'
According to my spies, one of the first stops for the prop crew on
'Ghostbusters' was our very own Weird Stuff Warehouse in Sunnyvale, CA. I'm
told that the crew bought several pallets worth of widgets, so I'm not in
the least surprised that some 'classics' showed up in the movie.
And, last time I was at Boeing Surplus, I found a couple of 'thank you'
letters on the wall from the production crew for 'Stargate: SG-1.'
Apparently, Boeing provided much of the electronic hardware and other
goodies to build a couple of the sets.
Who says surplus is worthless? ;-)
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8:07 a.m.
At 11:21 PM 6/19/99 -0700, Sellam wrote:
-Psion 3a used in Executive Decision to detonate the
bomb (not totally
classic but I'm a big Psion fan)
And don't forget the HP 200 LX with the Nokia cell phone that Simon used
in The Saint.
-I think there was an IMSAI 8080 in War Games
Yeap, it was. I just finished watching it again a few minutes ago.
Joe
8:10 a.m.
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Joe wrote:
Perception of jest is not your strongest ability :)
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At 11:21 PM 6/19/99 -0700, Sellam wrote:
That movie was horribly forgettable. I must've tuned it out at the point
where he pulled this out.
-Psion 3a used in Executive Decision to detonate
the bomb (not totally
classic but I'm a big Psion fan)
And don't forget the HP 200 LX with the Nokia cell phone that Simon used
in The Saint. -I think there
was an IMSAI 8080 in War Games
Yeap, it was. I just finished watching it again a few minutes ago.
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