23 Sep
1997
23 Sep
'97
11:32 a.m.
| Ok, we have a conflict of nerd movie trivia here. Was it
CompuPro S-100
| boxes or HP Vector Graphics generators?
CompuPro/Godbout is in the credits... they obviously didn't supply the
IMSAI :)
My friend Norm here in the next office swears it was CompuPro boxes.
Since he owned a CompuPro at the time the movie was released, I'm
inclined to believe him -- apparently it was common knowledge in the
CompuPro community. He's very specific about the MicroAngelo S-100
graphics boards that were used.
Kai
23 Sep
23 Sep
11:49 a.m.
My friend Norm here in the next office swears it was
CompuPro boxes.
Since he owned a CompuPro at the time the movie was released, I'm
inclined to believe him -- apparently it was common knowledge in the
CompuPro community. He's very specific about the MicroAngelo S-100
graphics boards that were used.
I have NO question that CompuPro boxes were used to drive CRT displays
and such. In fact, I know that's true. But the overhead displays in the
War Room were NOT generated with a raster technology. They were HP, or
some other brand, vector graphic generators with an overhead display unit
of some sort of EXTREMELY high quality. If I recall...they only had one
or two so the screens were shot at different times and composited
together but were real. Color was added later as it was in the Digistar
display systems used in the Kobiyashi Maru simulator in Star Trek II.
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