Funny to consider how many Apples are showcased on Apple TV shows. I think the most ridiculous one was "For All Mankind" where civilization was so advanced it featured colonies on the Moon and Mars... yet used current Apple phones and devices. How unimaginative.
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#52This site is amazing!
I was in Pendleton, Oregon the other day and checked out a vintage shop that had an Apple IIe with original disk drive and monitor for sale... along with lots of Macs from the 90s. I couldn't believe I was looking at "antiques".
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#53What 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…
iPhones and MacBooks are likely to be in movies next year.
Bold prediction. ;)
The more interesting question would be, what non-mainstream tech makes it to any popular movie? My guess would be Meta glasses.
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#54Huh. IMFDB but for computers. I like it.
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#55IBM's AN-FSQ-7 panels from 1950s SAGE have shown up in a huge number of movies. They are still showing up in new movies. Woody's Electrical Props in LA rents them out.[1] Those slanted panels aren't the computer. Those are the modems. [1] https://woodysprops.com/item.php?uid=122&page=4
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#56I spotted at least one touch-screen PC. Is that still a computer? Just kidding.
Pocket Computers are computers, why are they not in there?
There is even a trope due to a legal practice about Apples subclass of pocket calculators: iPhones are only worn by good guys in movies, that is a rule by Apple that possibly spoils some twists.
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#57Poor lil Acorn Atom only made it into an actual microcomputer doumentary and if it were not for that, nothing.
Edged out by the Oric Atmos, which is rightfully one of the most desirable of the bunch.
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#58What 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…
My favorite contemporaneous example of "current real technology being pitched as the future" are the Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog joystick and throttle controls, which are visible in so much modern stuff.
I've got them on the shelf next to my television (for DCS sessions) so whenever the stick or the throttle control appears in, say our current favorite show .. "Alien:Earth" .. one of us gets up and disengages the action on the screen as the watching session running gag. ;)
Great controllers, amusing movie props.
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#59Ones 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
Wang WPC: - Oh, what a wonderful thing WIIS was.
(Still got my Oric Atmos though, still using it..)
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