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Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)

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Re: Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)

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Post by dehrmann »

calgoo wrote: post #48
dredmorbius wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"iPhone" was an Infogear, later Cisco, trademark, for the InfoGear iPhone (1997--2000 / InfoGear, Cisco/Linksys 2006--2007), which was licenced to Apple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(internet_appliance) > https://www.cultofmac.com/apple-history/cisco-infogear-iphon... >

It was licensed... eventually :) Cisco where quick to bring Apple to court if i remember correctly.

I was at Cisco when the Apple iPhone was announced. It was rumored to be happening, so Cisco rushed out a Linksys VoIP(?) phone rebranded (it might have just been a sticker) as an "iPhone" so they could defend the trademark. They quickly reached an agreement with Apple. I remember they might have been getting their VPN included on the device. I'm sure there was a similar issue with iOS, and that caused me to get a lot of not-so-relevant emails from recruiters looking for mobile devs.

Re: Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)

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Post by dmd »

linsomniac wrote: post #36
echelon wrote: post #27

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As is the supercomputer. It's the Thinking Machine Connection Machine CM-5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine https://www.jurassic-pedia.com/cm-5-thinking-machine/ The LED panel is gorgeous: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6Ko4qBkEcBM A lot of people have replicated or restored these: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qm6w57ZcJZQ https://www.housedillon.com/posts/resurrected-led-panels/ --- I've always hoped the…

The National Cryptologic Museum outside Fort Meade has one or a few Connection Machines, a Cray, and all sorts of other computing and other gear. It's quite a worthwhile tour, IMHO. https://www.nsa.gov/museum/

My former employer, Ab Initio, has a Connection Machine in the basement. (Ab Initio was founded by the same person as Thinking Machines, and many/most of the early employees were from there.)

Re: Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)

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Post by sdrothrock »

cbdevidal wrote: post #5
shlip wrote: post #3

> It's the design mock up from the final presentation to Motorola for the iRadio (name later changed to Envoy). > The head of frogdesign, Hartmut Esslinger met Spielberg on a plane and showed him this mockup. Steven asked if it could be used as a prop in the film, and Hartmut gave it to him.

It’s mind-blowing to me that the actual guy who designed it chimed in. Assuming it’s not a fake comment, what are the odds!?

Pretty high on the RPF, actually! Especially in the early days, a lot of film, prop, and design industry professionals would congregate there and exchange information or big shop folklore. It was a pretty cool place (not saying it hasn't continued to be one, but I haven't been a regular in probably 20 years).

Re: Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)

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Post by dcrazy »

guerrilla wrote: post #60
bdbdbdb wrote: post #39

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Huh, I had no idea sgi was not pc hardware. I just assumed they made PCs with their own OS

Back then there were quite a few competing architectures and UNIXes to go with them. SGI MIPS with Irix, IBM had POWER with AIX and later Linux, DEC had Alpha Tru64 UNIX and VMS (not a UNIX), Sun SPARC with Solaris, HP had HA-RISC with HP-UX. Only SPARC and POWER survived for long and only POWER survived until today as far as I know. Solaris of course lives on in various forms. The old UNIXes I guess mostly do not, b…

IBM apparently still releases updates for AIX on POWER.

Re: Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)

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Post by egiboy »

swyx wrote: post #57
shlip wrote: post #3

> It's the design mock up from the final presentation to Motorola for the iRadio (name later changed to Envoy). > The head of frogdesign, Hartmut Esslinger met Spielberg on a plane and showed him this mockup. Steven asked if it could be used as a prop in the film, and Hartmut gave it to him.

ok so it now begs the question... whos plane was this?

The question that flew under the radar ;)

Re: Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)

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Post by retube »

bartread wrote: post #22

I love stuff like this. Often films and TV shows have anachronisms in them (like the very first episode, IIRC, of Narcos with the clearly very modern touchscreen photocopier where the screen has been covered with a piece of paper, or the BMW that wasn't released until the mid/late 1990s), but every so often you'll see something that is instead a flash of the future. Due to #reasons I watched the sentry gun scene in A…

Such a great scene. don't know why not in the regular version

Re: Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)

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Post by worldofmeden »

shlip wrote: post #3

> It's the design mock up from the final presentation to Motorola for the iRadio (name later changed to Envoy). > The head of frogdesign, Hartmut Esslinger met Spielberg on a plane and showed him this mockup. Steven asked if it could be used as a prop in the film, and Hartmut gave it to him.

This is really cool information

Re: Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)

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Post by guerrilla »

dcrazy wrote: post #65
guerrilla wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back then there were quite a few competing architectures and UNIXes to go with them. SGI MIPS with Irix, IBM had POWER with AIX and later Linux, DEC had Alpha Tru64 UNIX and VMS (not a UNIX), Sun SPARC with Solaris, HP had HA-RISC with HP-UX. Only SPARC and POWER survived for long and only POWER survived until today as far as I know. Solaris of course lives on in various forms. The old UNIXes I guess mostly do not, b…

IBM apparently still releases updates for AIX on POWER.

They still build POWER infrastructure too, but as far as I know Linux pretty much dominates. You can even buy POWER workstations from third party vendors like Raptor Computing Systems. Very expensive though.

Re: Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)

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Post by kayfox »

B1FIDO wrote: post #10
Basje wrote: post #8

Very cool. I saw Jurassic Park in the cinema and remember thinking that the Unix system that they used was some Hollywood fancy, but I learned much later that it was actually a prototype of a gui [0]. It appears that Spielberg was well-connected to tech people at the time. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_System_Visualizer

I mean actually the FSV that you refer to is a clone of the SGI IRIX utility, fsn , that was actually depicted on a live computer in the film. SGI was well-known to the film industry, because their IRIX systems were basically the sine qua non of graphics workstations and powerhouses. SGI invested heavily in the graphical capabilities, including 3D rendering, and therefore when the industry graduated from Amigas with…

The page on Wikipedia for fsn was deleted because fsn is "not notable."
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