On 6/27/2013 10:58 AM, Alan Bourke wrote:
I just read a thing last night about the WOPR supercomputer in the film 'War Games'. Which was a prop, made of wood, with a load of LEDs and bits and pieces to make it look real. At one point they decided they wanted something flickering at a particular rate so that it would look OK at 24fps in a cinema. So the effects guy shaved the clock crystal down bit by bit with a graphite pencil until it was yielding the frequency they wanted. #hardcore
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