Hi Gang:
Vancouver is a popular venue for TV and movie filmmaking. I've spoken to
prop folks locally and volunteered any of my systems should they have a
show or movie that needs "old computers with spinning tapes and blinking
lights".
No bites (bytes) yet, but it would be neat to get one of my systems into a
movie.
I also have about 20 old radios from the 1920s-30s and have offered them
for props as well.
I'd suggest that others in movie-friendly locales also volunteer, it's a
way of popularizing our hobby!
Kevin
At 12:23 AM 2/5/00 -0800, you wrote:
Hi, all,
I happened to be watching the Sci Fi Channel tonight and caught the re-
broadcast of the first "Sliders" episode. Quinn has a PDP-11 in his
basement in San Francisco. It's blurry most of the time, but when he
opens a worm hole for Wade and Prof. Arturo, the distortion effect brings
the rack into visible clarity - it appears to be an RX01 or RX02 at the top
of the rack, over a BA-11N box, CPU unknown. I'm not sure, but underneath
the BA-11N, the narrow black vertical panels appear similar to the filler
plates on a MINC-11 system, but that part of the rack wasn't shown as
clearly.
-ethan
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