I was an FE at the time doing refurbs, MES's, installs, moves, etc. at a
leasing company.
The leasing company president was one of the financial backers and told
the set decorator to come to the leasing company warehouse and use what
he wanted.
Doug Fuerst
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From "Phil Smith III" <[email protected]>
To [email protected]
Date 6/27/2025 15:06:25 PM
Subject Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: 3420 environmentals?
That's fun! I was working at University of Waterloo when they filmed part of a fairly
dreadful movie called "Utilities" in the Math (and computer) building,
including the Red Room (data centre). They wanted blinkenlights, and we had the 360/75
console still, so someone hooked up a Commodore SuperPet to make the lights flash. After
the movie, the console was mounted embedded in the wall of the Red Room. That room is now
gone, I'm told; no idea where the console wound up. It always amused me that what was a
multi-million-dollar machine was being simulated(ish) by a lowly SuperPet!
Of course another aspect of "movie magic" was that if one knew the building as
we did, scenes made no sense: I recall that at one point someone opens the door to a
lecture hall, enters, and is in the Red Room. Of course harmless, and done because the
lecture hall had big, impressive doors--but quite jarring if you walked by those doors
every day.
Were you an IBM FE at the time? Or just in the right place at the right time to
get the gigs?
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
Doug Fuerst
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2025 1:14 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: 3420 environmentals?
I did another for Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner movie. I think it was Hanky
Panky, but I really don't recall anymore. Had one scene they wanted a tape
drive in. Made it move with a tester. Last one I ever did, as it then became a
Hollywood set task, and unionized and I was not in the union, and did not want
to be.
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