A classic sighting this week

[Brent Hilpert]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> 
> On 6 Jul 2009 at 14:49, Pontus wrote:
> 
> > cool looking machine. This is a great site for this topic:
> >
> > http://starringthecomputer.com/feature.php?f=40
> 
> The shot of the IBM 029 with the logo carefully taped over with a
> "HONEYWELL" sticker is pretty funny.  Given that (as evidenced by the
> closing credits) the whole setup was provided by Honeywell, there was
> no way that the name "IBM" would ever be permitted to appear in the
> film.

Indeed, someone went a little overboard with product placement in that movie,
compare the front panel shown in the movie (last photo on web site above) and
that shown in a photo on Wikipedia:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_200