And last season on 24, they had a couple of episodes where they were supposedly reprogramming the "mainframe" by pulling cards and tinkering with them. When they went into the "mainframe room", all that was in there was a couple of racks of Cisco switches. Of course, Cisco was a sponsor of the show, and supplied all of the technical advice and hardware for the show.
Regards, Richard Schuh ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Harding Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 10:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Last release for 3420s? 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. -- Mike Harding z/VM System Support [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (925) 926-3179 (w) (925) 457-9183 (c) IM: VMBearDad (AIM), mbhcpcvt (Y!) The IBM z/VM Operating System <[email protected]> wrote on 06/05/2009 11:37:25 AM: > [image removed] > > Re: Last release for 3420s? > > Alan Altmark > > to: > > IBMVM > > 06/05/2009 11:39 AM > > Sent by: > > The IBM z/VM Operating System <[email protected]> > > 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
