Do you remember what the palm top was in T2? ---------- From: Uncle Roger To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers Subject: Computers in Movies (was: War Games) Date: Wednesday, September 24, 1997 3:37AM At 02:09 PM 9/23/97 -0500, you wrote: On a similar note, Anyone else notice that Messrs. Redford, Poitier, et al were using an Atari 830 300bps Acoustic Coupler for their super-duper, high-tech, bounce-around-the-world phone call to James Earl Jones? And in True Stories, the talking heads guy (whose name I can't remember this late at night) ran into the nerd from Varicor in the mall as he was coming out of a store loaded down with 8-bit atari stuff. And in Terminator 2, the scientist is working at his desk full of Atari 16-bit stuff (including at least a TT) when the kid's mom tries to blow him away. When he does finally bite the big one, it's in a room full of old HP 7925 & 7933 disk drives -- Could it be coincidence that just before T2 came out, HP was having a big promo to turn those in as trade-ins on newer drives? I don't think so! --------------------------------------------------------------------- O- Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad sinasohn(a)crl.com that none but madmen know." Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates San Francisco, California http://www.crl.com/~sinasohn/