Andy Sporner <andy.sporner@networkengines.com>
Fri, 05 May 2000 20:44:35 +0000

Christer Sandvik wrote:
> 
> Andy Sporner wrote:
> >
> > Hi Christer,
> 
> Hi Andy..
> 
> >
> > > Wasn't the name of the movie.. Just.. "D.A.R.Y.L" ?
> >
> > OK, you got me :-)  But it was a cool scene... especially
> > on the terminal "I hope we get away with it" (or something
> > like this).
> 
> Yeah.. The scene when they were asking DARYL about a private
> secret question to proof it's DARYL.. Because the little boy
> couldn't believe it or something like that..?! ;)
> 
> I should look fore the tape and look at it..
> If I can find it in my.. Mess!@#*
> But i can still remember "that" scene.. VERY WELL!
> (The one in the computer-room.. The little room! ;) Hehe..)
> 
> >
> > > (Tron is also cool.. But no VAXen? or PDP's?)
> >
> > Actually there was.  If you look very very carefully when
> > Wendy is showing off the laser, they walk past a few racks
> > of PDP-11/70's
> 
> I should look better the next time i see it ;)
> 
> >
> > >
> > > What about the "Wargames" movie?! DG-Eclipse?!
> >
> > I thought that the W.O.P.R was simply a prop, but now that you
> > mention this, I remember at the start them walking past a number
> > of tape drives,
> 
> Yeah.. The blue one's ;) ?
> It also look's like DG-Eclipse machine's.. AM i right? I don't know..
> Maybe I should look at the movie.. One more time.. Next week ;)
> 
> >>but I never really paid attention to them.  It was
> > a HUGE advertiser for IMSAII though.   I am still looking for one
> > of these machines.
> 
> Hehe.. Me toooo ;) ..At least something the same?
> I got a few tapes.. But not a single "machine".
> But I have access to a DG-Eclipse and Nova-840 ;)
> >> I have a DEC PDP-8, and it was even operational
> > recently.
> 
> Cool.. I'm a member of a computer soc. here i Sundsvall, Sweden
> called CommSoft. We have a few PDP's (23 and 34 etc.)
> and one? or two? VAX-11/750's..
> installed.. But.. In the winter we can't use them.
> Toooo cold.. Haha.
> But now.. It's so near the summer ;)
> Just here?
> (We got so much.. Unused hardware just laying around..
> Like.. A few TU81+? Mmmm... And.. A few terminals etc..
> No-one cares about it.. Anymore?!)
> 
> A few years ago.. When I wasn't a member.. They had more VAXen and PDP's
> systems up and running.
> Nowadays.. We use.. More.. VAXstations etc.
> No lovely old-fashioned VAX's ;(
> We don't use them as much as the micro..
> 
> (www.commsoft.se/~cs -- browse trough some pictures.. Soon.
> The server is down for a short time?!)
> 
> Ask Anders (Ragge) Magnusson.
> He's also a member.. But not "so" active.. He's more active in LUDD?! ;)
> Yeah..
> 
> >>I also have the complete board set for a Decsystem/570
> > (it was an 11/70 in special wraps to control medical equipment).  The
> > front panel uses green and blue switches rather than the traditional
> > Orange and Purple.
> >
> > > ..There is a SGI-Crimson.. That's the nearest *<;) Hehe..
> > > Hehe.. Don't know. I have never seen something like it anyway..
> > >
> >
> > There was a Crimson on Jurasic park near the end.  The girl starts
> > hacking it and exclaims: "It's a UNIX machine!!!".
> 
> I remember that.. (Can't remember the Crimson..)
> She was browsing trough the system with the FSN program.
> Not hacking?! ;)
> (It's sucks using it on my SGI Indy (R4600PC.. 100MHz.. 64MB_RAM etc.)
> ;) He he..)
> But.. If you power-on a SGI machine.. You can see you are hacking ;)
> It's so professional to use on of those.. Yeah.. He he.
> But I still like the VAX arch. MUCH MUCH MORE!!
> 
> Was that actually a Crimson?..
> Hehe.. Cool.
> I think they also used Apple Comp. monitors ;)
> (Don't remember that "good".)
> 
> Sick thing:
> In the text in the end of the movie..
> It says..
> Thanks to.. Bla bla bla. Apple Comp. etc.
> BUT NO SGI!
> That's sick..
> In Star Wars Episode One.. Just before you can hear Darth Vader's
> "breathing"-thing.. There's a..
> BIG (THE OLD-ONE) SGI LOGO.. COol ;)
> But not in Jurassic Park.. *ARGH!*
> 
> >
> > > (PDP-11/34 r0xx!)
> >
> > Hmmm..  With a wimpy front panel ???  How about the 11/05 11/10 11/20
> > 11/40 11/45 11/50 or 11/70 :-)
> 
> Yeah.. Okey.. All of them!@#* :)
> But the -34 is my personal favourite.. Don't know why ;)
> I use'd to have a.. Big! Commerical thing at my wall.. In my
> computer-room..
> The first commerical of the PDP-11/34 ;)
> 
> >
> > Bye
> >
> > Andy
> 
> Bye.. And once again I say this.. Excuse my bad english..
> I'm a Swedish VAX fanatic idiot ;)
> He he..
> 
> Is there any more cool movies to talk about?! ;)
> Like.. "The Net" ? No.. Just PC-crap and Mac-crap?
> ..Mmm.. ?!
> 
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> =----------------+-----------------+-----------=
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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)