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.