From: utzoo!watmath!csc
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: computers in the movies
Article-I.D.: watmath.4634
Posted: Thu Feb 24 13:31:57 1983
Received: Fri Feb 25 09:07:21 1983

Some scenes from a yet to be released movie named "Utilities" were filmed here
in Waterloo. (We have a very impressive looking machine room).

Rather than film the existing computers (which the public wouldn't identify
as computers), they brought in some big ugly metal prop with hundreds of
blinking lights.

Ironically, the film crew used the real 4341's as tables, benches, and
one lighting man even sat on one!

Why can't they make a movie with a believable computer? (A small, black box
with a terminal attached...one that doesn't spin tape drives, flash lights,
or spew data out on a teletype)?

-jan
...watmath!csc