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The Computers Used in Movies

https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computers.html
53•gitowiec•1h ago

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gitowiec•1h ago
I found ZX Spectrum! And it was not popular in movies
andrea76•58m ago
Commodore 64 film list is really impressive.. .
WillAdams•52m ago
While not a movie, a bunch of NeXT Cubes (at least the monitors) were used in a Madonna video --- apparently some production company got a good deal on machines intended for Japan (hence the katakana interface)
emchammer•43m ago
Cool, what video?
svantana•36m ago
It's "Rain" (1993)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15kWlTrpt5k

pieterr•28m ago
With Ryûichi Sakamoto as The Director.
wgx•22m ago
He’s the reason Mogwai have a track called “Ritchie Sacramento”
martin-adams•47m ago
What timing. I was just preparing my Sony Vaio PCT-C1MHP only yesterday to try and sell. I remember seeing this in a movie around 2000 (probably Charlies Angels) and got one.

https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=64

hamburglar•39m ago
No Cray appearances? Surprising.
pieterr•20m ago
Sneakers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/95izj7/sneake...

andrehacker•11m ago
Tron https://digibarn.com/collections///systems/crays/cray1/Cray-...
purplezooey•32m ago
My fav. so far is the IMSAI 8080 in "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" (2007).
jim_lawless•27m ago
I remember seeing the TRS-80's in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou but I didn't know that they were Model IV's.

According to this list, there was a TRS-80 Model III in the Star Wars TV series Andor:

Andor - Season 1, Episode 1, "Kassa" (2022)

ssenssei•27m ago
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.
jmclnx•27m ago
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

timdellinger•12m ago
“sort by year” is buried on the site, but definitely a fun way to sort

there should also be a “you can spot the villain early since they’re the only one not using Apple” sub-list

petra303•11m ago
I feel like the movie Hackers should have more entries.

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https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computers.html
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