| From: Larry Anderson & Diane
Hare[SMTP:foxnhare@goldrush.com]
| If any of you are into reading books or watching movies
where
| computers play a key role (or character) check out the list
I'm
| compiling on my web site (address below.)
Try this:
http://us.imdb.com/M/search_plots?for=computer
Kai
At 09:29 AM 5/7/97 -0700, Kai Kaltenbach wrote:
>_Ferris Bueller's Day Off_ has Ferris breaking into his school's system
>remotely and changing his grades ...
while that sounds like something Ferris Bueller would do, i think you're
thinking of the early part of War Games (before he started WW III) where he
logs into the school computer (password: pencil).
- glenn
| From: Greg
Mast[SMTP:gmast@polymail.cpunix.calpoly.edu]
| I'm sorry but I can't recall a scene in any movie that
resembles a real
| use of a computer.
There was a pretty good, rather realistic scene in _Patriot Games_ where
Harrison Ford has logged his nemesis' account and is grabbing files full
of evidence, while the other guy frantically tries to delete them.
_Ferris Bueller's Day Off_ has Ferris breaking into his school's system
remotely and changing his grades in a fairly realistic manner.
In _Under Siege 2: Dark Territory_, the hero wires into a broken pay
phone with a Newton and sends an emergency fax. I had a Newton at the
time, and loved this bit.
And _Wargames_ was actually pretty realistic; he had the IMSAI with
voice synth (probably a CompuTalker) and a demon dialer program, all of
which were acceptable realism for me. Plus, at the time, we all thought
Ally Sheedy was pretty cute.
Kai
Bill,
You should write a message to NEW-LIST(a)LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU announcing the
birth of CLASSICCMP. That way, you will reach most of the people who
maintain mailing list databases etc.
Bill wrote:
> I've been reasearching the possibility of putting old magazine articles
> up on the ClassicCmp web site.
What about Popular Computing? I have a note that I want to find #38, and I
don't even remember why.
Anyway, the idea is great!
/Fredrik
Good choice of subject, Sam! If you had just used "yo" again, I might have
missed this one. :-)
> One of the things I saw at the last swap meet I was at was a Victor PC.
If it said "Victor PC" and nothing else it was almost certainly a PC
clone. Victor was originally an American company (later moved to Sweden)
and started out making their own PCs (ie not IBM clones). Their most
successful early model must have been the Victor 9000, one of the biggest
wants for my collection. It was one of the first pure 16-bit PCs and
featured very nice monochrome graphics. The keyboard layout is similar to
a PC and it has 2 5.25" floppy drives, so this might have been what you
saw. It could run both CP/M and a ported version of MS-DOS. The 9000 was
marketed in Britain with the name Sirius ACT-1 or Apricot 1 or something
like that.
If I remember correctly the 9000 had a dark case and black keys.
Later, Victor started making IBM clones, which they continued doing until
AST bought them one or two years ago.
Anyway, even if what you saw was a 9000 it was probably not worth $40.
/Fredrik
Kevan wrote:
> I think the Microbee also originates from Australia.
Correct. The Microbee is Australian. I'd love to have one of these. Is
there anyone on this list who has one or used to have one? Or who knows if
there are still any user groups or similar in Australia?
/Fredrik
Ok,
I have an old Anita 1000 calculator which I think dates from around
1967. It is all discrete components mounted on a number of seperate
boards. One board has a funny spidery type component on it and I don't
know what it is. You can see a picture here:
http://staff.motiv.co.uk/~kevan/card.jpg
I have a second Anita that has three of these things on it so I really
would like to know what they are.
Thanks
--
Kevan
Old Computer Collector: http://staff.motiv.co.uk/~kevan/
Forwarded from comp.os.cpm:-
From: schach(a)garnet.berkeley.edu (Linda B)
Subject: Xerox 860's -- anyone interested
Date: 6 May 1997 17 : 59 : 43 GMT
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
Have several Xerox 860 8080 CP/M computers as well as Diablo 630 printers
modified to work specifically with them. They are located in Berkeley,
nyone interested in them?
Linda B
One of the things I saw at the last swap meet I was at was a Victor PC.
I am pretty darn sure this is some PC clone because it had the requisite
function keys and 2 5.25" floppy drives. The drives and monitor and CPU
were all one unit (the monitor may have been detachable or just sitting
on the CPU). It was labelled "Victor" and the "o" was like a multi-band
colored sun (or something). Um, don't know what else to say about it.
Does anyone know what this is? I was tempted to pick it up but it was
priced at (I think) $40 and wasn't even going to bother haggling (this
was the same guy trying to sell two VIC-20s at $25 a piece).
Sam
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