From: utzoo!decvax!aps Newsgroups: net.movies Title: Computers in the movies Article-I.D.: decvax.430 Posted: Mon Mar 14 14:56:59 1983 Received: Thu Mar 17 08:40:29 1983 I thing that rocheste!brown is correct in his saying that Hollywood is right and the manufactures are wrong. (I loved the 1620; it was my first!!) However, I think that the IBM 370/168 was the best as far as lights and buttons go. There was a full panel (I seem to recall a meter for I/O rate) and two large panels that were really fiche "display screens with neon lights behind it". Change the fiche and the meanings of the lights would change! All this plus a big green eye that they called a console terminal. I myself, have a PDP-11/70 front panel (not the RD crud) that I will be hanging on decvax, anyday now. It was a shame that they rapped those 1620's for the movie! Could they have been using 1620 as bit-slices and you could control each slice through the front panel? I better stop now. aps.