From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!hp-pcd!keith Newsgroups: net.movies Title: Re: TSOANM movie comments - (nf) Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.694 Posted: Tue Feb 22 12:04:17 1983 Received: Thu Feb 24 02:17:06 1983 #R:ihuxb:-22600:hp-pcd:6500006:000:872 hp-pcd!keith Feb 22 08:24:00 1983 Can you imagine a Hollywood movie in which the computer actually looks like a modern computer? -------------------------------------------------------- It is interesting to see how Hollywood treats the computer in the movies. A computer isn't interesting enough just to look at because it doesn't look like it is doing anything. So they treat us to views of card sorters, tape drives, and crts that make noises like ASR33 Teletypes. In the future, as more mechanical moving parts get eliminated, we will probably get to see pictures of magnetic bubbles rolling over little chevrons (with the appropriate sound effects). It's easy for me to be critical, but the folks making the movies have a difficult challenge. Just how do you portray a computer doing 'work' in a ten second clip? Keith M. Taylor Corvallis, Oregon hp-pcd!keith