Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umd5.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!umd5!louie From: louie@umd5.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Comments on 2010 Review -- **SLIGHT Message-ID: <268@umd5.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 10:56:17 EST Article-I.D.: umd5.268 Posted: Thu Dec 13 10:56:17 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 00:37:16 EST References: <1394@ritcv.UUCP> <12100004@acf4.UUCP> <267@umd5.UUCP> <1211@bbncca.ARPA> Reply-To: louie@umd5.UUCP (Louis Mamakos) Organization: U of Md, CSC, College Park, Md Lines: 27 Summary: In article <1211@bbncca.ARPA> sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) writes: >>Did everyone notice the Apple IIc, with LCD flat panel display on the beach? > >Just another example of the bizarre anachronisms in this movie. I know the >Apple II design has been long-lived, but heaven help us if it lasts until >2010! > >Speaking of technology, wasn't anyone else dismayed at the 1950's level >of user-interface on the Leonov: buzzes, whistles and all sorts of gee-gaws, >and row upon row of SWITCHES! My God, we're dumping this today. How can >it other than insult us to see this proposed as the leading edge of hi-tech >30 years from now? (One friend of mine pointed out that this was a >SOVIET ship, and hence was to be expected!) Long live the blinky-light syndrome! I'm surprized they did this, since they had to painstakenly reproduce the Discovery from prints of 2001. I'm sure that someone had to have seen the stark contrast between the two spacecraft. The "sonar" effect as the probe was decending on Europa was most obnoxious and unnecessary. Louis A. Mamakos Computer Science Center - Systems Programming University of Maryland, College Park Internet: louie@umd5.arpa UUCP: ..!seismo!cvl!umd5!louie