Andy Sporner <andy.sporner@networkengines.com>
Tue, 02 May 2000 16:14:40 +0000

Christer Sandvik wrote:
> 
> Andy Sporner wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > I recently saw some top corner of a VAX 4000 in a documentation on TV
> > here,
> > > including some other VAX-related DEC-stuff standing around there. But on
> > the
> > > movies, it seems to be hard to spot a VAX.
> >
> > Perhaps in the German movies, but you can see a room full of 11/725's and
> > 11/750's
> > in a movie called "D.A.R.R.Y.L".
> 
> Wasn't the name of the movie.. Just.. "D.A.R.Y.L" ?
> (Tron is also cool.. But no VAXen? or PDP's?)
> Yeah..
> I was quite surprised when i saw that movie and saw the PDP/VAX(en)'s
> computers.. ;)
> I saw the movie with my family and they thought i was some kind of
> idiot when i jumped out of the bed and screamed: -
> "COOOOL! PDP/VAX(en)'s!!"
> Haha..
> It was soooo cool to see some old wonderful machines as the PDP´s..
> Hehe..
> (Nevermind.. PDP or VAX's?! It was cabs.. 106x73x76 cm (HxWxD)..)
> I think i saw an (Data General) DG-30 also? !
> Eclipse machines?!
> But in the old tv-xxxx called "Moonbase Alpha" you can see many of those
> old and stable wonderful machines.. DG-30 terminals ;)
> 
> What about the "Wargames" movie?! DG-Eclipse?!
> ..And that unreal computer called/named "gibson" in "Hackers" ;)
> ..There is a SGI-Crimson.. That's the nearest *<;) Hehe..
> Hehe.. Don't know. I have never seen something like it anyway.. Hehe.
> 
> >
> > Andy
> 
> >> PDP iS aLiVE!@#*
> (PDP-11/34 r0xx!)
> 
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> =----------------+-----------------+-----------=
> christer sandvik |                 | Linux
> f. and president |    /dev/null    | NetBSD
>      of clug     |  ojnk! ..yeah!  | OpenBSD
> president of scs |  PDP is alive!  | sgi/sun/vax
> =----------------+-----------------+-----------=
> Teach programmers not to drink and hack.
>     (from linux/drivers/scsi/53c7,8xx.c)
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-- 
=----------------+-----------------+-----------=
christer sandvik |                 | Linux
f. and president |    /dev/null    | NetBSD
     of clug     |  ojnk! ..yeah!  | OpenBSD
president of scs |  PDP is alive!  | sgi/sun/vax
=----------------+-----------------+-----------=
Teach programmers not to drink and hack.
    (from linux/drivers/scsi/53c7,8xx.c)
3am Software Foundry (- www.3am-software.com)