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    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to alt.folklore.computers on Thu Jul 16 04:37:32 2026
    “This is a Unix system! I know this!”

    Every piece of computer hardware in the original “Jurassic Park”
    hardware was real -- loaned by the vendors for use in the film. In the
    blog post linked to in this report, Google engineer Fabien Sanglard
    goes through it all -- including of course the SGI machines that were
    the subject of the famous line above.

    <https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/engineer-identifies-and-explains-every-90s-computer-seen-in-jurassic-park/>

    (RIP Sam Neill)
  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to alt.folklore.computers on Thu Jul 16 21:19:30 2026
    This was awesome. Are there more of these?


    Lawrence D?Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
    ?This is a Unix system! I know this!?

    Every piece of computer hardware in the original ?Jurassic Park?
    hardware was real -- loaned by the vendors for use in the film. In the
    blog post linked to in this report, Google engineer Fabien Sanglard
    goes through it all -- including of course the SGI machines that were
    the subject of the famous line above.

    <https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/engineer-identifies-and-explains-every-90s-computer-seen-in-jurassic-park/>

    (RIP Sam Neill)
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  • From Jan van den Broek@balglaas@dds.nl to alt.folklore.computers on Fri Jul 17 06:54:17 2026
    2026-07-16, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> schrieb:
    This was awesome. Are there more of these?

    You mean like "Starring the Computer"?
    https://www.starringthecomputer.com/

    [Schnipp]
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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to alt.folklore.computers on Sat Jul 18 06:27:22 2026
    Jan van den Broek <balglaas@dds.nl> wrote:
    2026-07-16, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> schrieb:
    This was awesome. Are there more of these?

    You mean like "Starring the Computer"?
    https://www.starringthecomputer.com/

    [Schnipp]

    Even better. Thanks. :)
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to alt.folklore.computers on Sat Jul 18 06:57:37 2026
    On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:54:17 -0000 (UTC), Jan van den Broek wrote:

    https://www.starringthecomputer.com/

    Which one has the longest list of entries <https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computers.html>? I think it’s a
    toss-up between the Commodore 64 <https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=66> and the IBM
    AN/FSQ-7 <https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=73>.

    I don’t think any of the latter featured as actual working units. They
    were huge mainframe computers, built for the US Air Force SAGE system
    to guard against attack by Soviet nuclear bombers. Billions were spent
    to build and run the system for about a decade, before the whole thing
    was decommissioned as it became clear that the main threat would
    henceforth come from ICBMs. It was never used in anger, of course;
    some felt that it would never have worked anyway.

    Pieces kept popping up in movies and TV for many years after the
    system was dismantled, since buying and adapting those second-hand
    parts was usually cheaper than building your own props from scratch.
    And they looked pretty impressive, too.