On 2016-Feb-04, at 5:48 PM, Mike Loewen wrote: > I'm trying to identify a system which appeared in "The Killer Elite" > (1975), with a room full of tape drives and a couple of terminals: > > http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-1.png > http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-2.png > http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-6.png > http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-9.png > > The drives appear to be IBM 3420s, but with an additional box on top, > labeled "SMS". The system itself doesn't appear in any of the shots. Some > sort of IBM 370, perhaps?
Funny, I've been doing a bit of a Peckinpah retrospective and watched that two nights ago. Noticed the computer equipment of course but concluded about as much as you did: IBM drives and 3270-ish terminals, hence IBM shop; no CPU visible but 370 era.
