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No Cray appearances? Surprising.
https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=15
"The lights flash just like they do normally, although it's hard to understand why a theme park needs a supercomputer."
:D
No Cray appearances? Surprising.
Huh. I always thought that there was a Cray in Wargames.
I mean the 5150 pc not the 5160 XT they mention.
Clicking through random computers I think the 80’s had a lot of really beautiful hardware.
I think it might be fun to buy an IBM PS/2 case and try to put modern hardware inside. I’d love to have that on my desk. Come to think of it, there must be companies making retro-looking cases…. If you search for retro computer case you get a bunch of boring 90’s towers. Where’s the fun stuff?
Ones in the List I have used :) * CDC 6600 * DEC VAX 11/780 (IIRC) * Honeywell H200, did not expect to see this on the list * IBM S/370 (IIRC) * IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads - 760, T43, T420, T61, W500 * Wang Professional Computer - these were bomb proof. I had a 16 bit Unix running on this. * Wang WLTC
What computers available today look interesting enough that they will show up in movies next year? Clicking through random computers I think the 80’s had a lot of really beautiful hardware. I think it might be fun to buy an IBM PS/2 case and try to put modern hardware inside. I’d love to have that on my desk. Come to think of it, there must be companies making retro-looking cases…. If you search for retro computer ca…
Ha! A couple decades ago I saw the original Westworld, spotted some assembly, and thought it looked like 6502/Apple II code, so I assumed that was “probably” it and thought I was a clever nerd. Now I check this list and discovered it wasn’t 6502, and then realized the 6502 (1975) didn’t exist at the time the movie was shot (1973). Reviewed some scenes just now on YouTube and I can see it doesn’t look like 6502 code a…
Fun Fact: in king of queens, most of the pcs (for example airport episode with doug's parents) are just RCT tvs with paper printout of a screen taped over it.
You typically film at E.G. 21 FPS, while your PC runs at 50 / 60 (which isn't an integer multiple of 21), so you get Vsyncs somewhere during each frame, making each filmed frame a superposition of two frames onscreen. You also have to be careful about how long the film is exposed for, as, on a CRT screen, the electron gun goes left-to-right, top-to-bottom, and the top-left corner of the frame is no longer visible when the gun reaches bottom-right. If your film isn't exposed for the entire duration of the frame, parts of it may never be visible.
This is why there was a cottage industry of PCs and PC monitors designed to run at Hollywood frame rates. Cathode Ray Dude has an excellent video on why this was a problem and how the problem was solved[1].