This is what the international movie database (imdb.com) says at http://us.imdb.com/Plot?0054989: << As Lieutenant Fergie Howard and Ensign Beau Gilliam are playing poker on board their ship, "El Mira", they are interrupted with the announcement that "Operation Honeymoon" has been launched successfully. This is due to Max the computer- a computer that can pin point exactly where and when a missile will land once it has been launched. This information gives Fergie and idea of how to become rich quick and easy. He asks the navy scientist, Jason Elderidge, if Max can tell where a ball will land when playing roulette- the answer is, yes! When they dock in Venice, Fergie, Beau and Jason check into an expensive hotel and hit the Venice Casino. The three soon find out that becoming rich won't be as easy as they think, for, Admiral Fitch is staying in the same hotel- just two floors above them. If Admiral Fitch discovers what the are doing, they are in big, big trouble.>> Andrew Strouse ( kittstr(a)access-4-free.com ) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vintage Computer Festival" &lt;vcf(a)siconic.com&gt; To: &lt;cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 5:18 PM Subject: Re: OT: Ship based mainframe in movie(1961) Festival ---- http://www.vintage.org mputers ] http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

I'm reasonably sure you have a Venturis 5100 (five not ess). Amazingly, the old PC stuff still inhabits part of the HP website! http://h18000.www1.hp.com/legacysupport/digital/ven5xxx.html Worth grabbing them all while you are there - the parts list was small so I looked and it does list the SIMMs but does not explicitly state whether they are ECC or not etc. The service manual may be more informative. I have an old Celebris in use here (same sort of era - or at least decade) as the Venturis and I've certainly dropped standard non-dec memory into that with no issues. Maybe I was lucky and had the BIOS set right? Antonio -- --------------- Antonio Carlini arcarlini(a)iee.org