On 6/8/09 17:05 Michael Harding said:
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.
Close, it was "Colossus: The Forbin Project" from the early 70's. I was programming on a 1620 at the time, and the idea that they would have butchered such a sweet (decimal) machine to make props for a movie, offended the living hell out of me. Seems to me most of the other hardware was CDC.
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