The Computers Used in Movies

53 pointsposted an hour ago
by gitowiec

18 Comments

Animats

a minute ago

IBM's AN-FSQ-7 panels from 1950s SAGE have shown up in a huge number of movies. They are still showing up in new movies. Woody's Electrical Props in LA rents them out.[1]

Those slanted panels aren't the computer. Those are the modems.

[1] https://woodysprops.com/item.php?uid=122&page=4

timdellinger

12 minutes ago

“sort by year” is buried on the site, but definitely a fun way to sort

there should also be a “you can spot the villain early since they’re the only one not using Apple” sub-list

ssenssei

27 minutes ago

Fun Fact: in king of queens, most of the pcs (for example airport episode with doug's parents) are just RCT tvs with paper printout of a screen taped over it.

jim_lawless

27 minutes ago

I remember seeing the TRS-80's in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou but I didn't know that they were Model IV's.

According to this list, there was a TRS-80 Model III in the Star Wars TV series Andor:

Andor - Season 1, Episode 1, "Kassa" (2022)

WillAdams

an hour ago

While not a movie, a bunch of NeXT Cubes (at least the monitors) were used in a Madonna video --- apparently some production company got a good deal on machines intended for Japan (hence the katakana interface)

petra303

10 minutes ago

I feel like the movie Hackers should have more entries.

purplezooey

32 minutes ago

My fav. so far is the IMSAI 8080 in "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" (2007).

gitowiec

an hour ago

I found ZX Spectrum! And it was not popular in movies

andrea76

an hour ago

Commodore 64 film list is really impressive.. .

jmclnx

26 minutes ago

Ones in the List I have used :)

* CDC 6600

* DEC VAX 11/780 (IIRC)

* Honeywell H200, did not expect to see this on the list

* IBM S/370 (IIRC)

* IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads - 760, T43, T420, T61, W500

* Wang Professional Computer - these were bomb proof. I had a 16 bit Unix running on this.

* Wang WLTC