16 Aug
2007
16 Aug
'07
11:46 a.m.
On an old Spenser Tracy, Kate Hepburn movie called "Desk Set" playing
on the Family Movie Channel. 1957
Looked like an IBM 700 series computer. Unfortunitely it was only
shown during the opening credits.
Story is about installing an IBM computer in a TV Studio. Mostly a
situational comedy. I am not sure I will stick around toii see if it
show up later.
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Paxton Hoag
Astoria, OR
USA
17 Aug
17 Aug
11:34 p.m.
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 11:46 -0700, Paxton Hoag wrote:
On an old Spenser Tracy, Kate Hepburn movie called
"Desk Set" playing
on the Family Movie Channel. 1957
Looked like an IBM 700 series computer. Unfortunitely it was only
shown during the opening credits.
Story is about installing an IBM computer in a TV Studio. Mostly a
situational comedy. I am not sure I will stick around toii see if it
show up later.
IIRC "Desk Set" was cited in the BCS at 50 conference as the first
appearance of a real computer in a movie. I haven't seen it, but
apparently it was quite prescient as regards the uses computers would
eventually have.
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Lawrence Wilkinson lawrence at ljw.me.uk
The IBM 360/30 page http://www.ljw.me.uk/ibm360
1 Sep
1 Sep
6:59 p.m.
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Paxton Hoag wrote:
On an old Spenser Tracy, Kate Hepburn movie called
"Desk Set" playing
on the Family Movie Channel. 1957
Looked like an IBM 700 series computer. Unfortunitely it was only
shown during the opening credits.
If anyone is still interested in this, I put up a batch of screen
captures from "Desk Set":
http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/DeskSet/
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
7:14 p.m.
If anyone is still interested in this, I put up a
batch of screen
captures from "Desk Set":
http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/DeskSet/
Quick quiz - who designed the floor?
--
Will
8:25 p.m.
On 1 Sep 2007 at 22:14, William Donzelli wrote:
Only because I'm old enough, but that floor design looks like the
work of Piet Mondrian.
Cheers,
Chuck
If anyone
is still interested in this, I put up a batch of screen
captures from "Desk Set":
http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/DeskSet/
Quick quiz - who designed the floor? 
8:26 p.m.
William Donzelli wrote:
It has all the appearance of being by Mondrian, along the lines of
"Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow". (<sniff>)
The hardware appears to be a mixture of perhaps 700-series tape drives,
assorted card equipment and a made-up "CPU" to fulfill the poular expectations
of many blinkenlights.
If anyone is still interested in this, I put
up a batch of screen
captures from "Desk Set":
http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/DeskSet/
Quick quiz - who designed the floor?
7:43 p.m.
On 1 Sep 2007 at 21:59, Mike Loewen wrote:
If anyone is still interested in this, I put up a
batch of screen
captures from "Desk Set":
http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/DeskSet/
There's not a lot here to go on--but the printing unit looks to me
like an IBM 402/403 accounting machine and the tape drives like 727s.
A bunch of 024/026 keypunches, a 533 read/punch unit and what looks
to be a 705 console in the far background.
The blinkenlights display, on the other hand, really looks as if it
was reused for several TV series...
Cheers,
Chuck
8:53 p.m.
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Chuck Guzis wrote:
The blinkenlights display, on the other hand, really
looks as if it
was reused for several TV series...
It was. If you remember Irwin Allen's "Voyage to the Bottom of the
Sea" series, you'll find the light panel on the Seaview:
http://www.vttbots.com/interiors_1.html
According to that page, it was also used in "The Invisible Boy" and
"The Fly".
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
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