The early Hollywood depictions tended to feature card sorters or collators,
only occasionally tape drives. Had to have some sort of visible action. I
remember one though ("Goliath", I think) about a computer that was taking
over the world, which had a room whose walls were covered with panels of
flashing lights and a control console I recognized as an IBM 1620.
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The IBM z/VM Operating System <[email protected]> wrote on 06/05/2009
11:37:25 AM:
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> Re: Last release for 3420s?
>
> Alan Altmark
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> to:
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> IBMVM
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> 06/05/2009 11:39 AM
>
> Sent by:
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> The IBM z/VM Operating System <[email protected]>
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> Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System
>
> On Friday, 06/05/2009 at 02:21 EDT, Adam Thornton
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > There's some in Virginia free to a good home. Free to any home, in
> > fact. Just take it away. As long as you provide all the labor and
> > all the transport, it's yours. Not kidding.
>
> You would think that some Hollywood museum would want them as a "cultural
> icon" for 1st-generation movies with/about computers. I suppose you're
> already checked with the Smithsonian and Walt Disney World. :-)
>
> Alan Altmark
> z/VM Development
> IBM Endicott
