Vintage computers in movies - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

13 Dec 2000

I think that the computer in Wierd Science was a Memotech FDX 500.

Rich

-----Original Message-----
From: Cameron Kaiser [mailto:spectre@stockholm.ptloma.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 11:39 AM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Vintage computers in movies

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  >> > What was the computer they used in Weird
Science? Didn't they use
 > > something
 >> > unusual in Ferris Buhler's Day Off(did I spell his last name
correctly?)
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  >> 
 >> I'm nearly certain Ferris had an IBM PC of some sort, and that the
 >> computer in Weird Science was a Commodore, of the VIC-20 or C=64 variety.
...

Yeah, Ferris had a PC.  
 The script at http://members.tripod.com/~MrHyde/ferris.txt claims:

 52  INT. FERRIS' ROOM : Ferris is at his Macintosh computer. He 
 has his record up on the screen.

                               FERRIS
                I wanted a car. I got a computer. How's
                that for being born under a bad sign? 
I distinctly remember that computer having a 5.25" floppy, and that doesn't
sound like a Mac to me :-)

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