Video of Cray 1 and other artifacts...

[Curt at Atari Museum]

You wanna watch a truly evil computer - watch Demon Seed.



Curt



Bryan Pope wrote:
> And thusly were the wise words spake by Curt @ Atari Museum
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>> Yeah I liked that comment too which showing banks of removable storage 
>> units... reminds me of the actual line out of Tron where "Flynn" 
>> exclaims "because man, somewhere in one of those 'memories' is the 
>> evidence" 
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>> Memories....    you'd have thought with all of the technical staff 
>> they'd have come up with a more proper term that didn't sound so damned 
>> clumsy....
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> Maybe they were trying to connect it with human memories, since the 
> programs within the TRON universe had a life of their own?  
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> With all of thie TRON talk, I just happened to have watched TRON 
> again on Friday, then WarGames.  On Saturday I watched Terminator 3.  
> All three movies seem to have similar storylines... 
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> The first two movies have a mainframe as the big bad computer while 
> the third uses that idea as a red herring.
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> Cheers,
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> Bryan
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>> Roy J. Tellason wrote:
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>>> On Sunday 04 November 2007 14:25, Curt - Atari Museum wrote:
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>>>> Saw this on YouTube - nice video from 1982 that discusses Tron and how
>>>> movies/TV would change due to Supercomputer based graphics...   lots of
>>>> great shots of a Cray 1, terminals and other graphic computer devices:
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>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu5_33uRNzc
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>>> Neat!
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>>> I'm wondering what that multi-colored keyboard was that was being used near 
>>> the beginning of that.  And in the segment where they're talking about the 
>>> Cray,  those "memory banks" are presumably big honking disk drives?
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