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Starring The Computer
Online resource is the IMDB of appearances by computers in film and television:
Starring the Computer is a website dedicated to the use of computers in film and television. Each appearance is catalogued and rated on its importance (ie. how important it is to the plot), realism (how close its appearance and capabilities are to the real thing) and visibility (how good a look does one get of it). Fictional computers don’t count (unless they are built out of bits of real computer), so no HAL9000 - sorry.
Above are:
- Columbo (IBM AN/FSQ-7)
- Ghostbusters (DEC Rainbow 100)
- The Thing (Intertec Superbrain)
- Tron (Apple III)
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Siemens System 4004)
- Airplane II (Commodore Vic-20)
- Big (Unisys PW2 Series 500)
- Futureworld (IBM AN/FSQ-7)
There is more to find at Starring The Computer here
We’re in Chicago next week for the AWP writers conference and will be throwing a happy hour for Tumblr writers of all stripes. We’d love to see you there.
The venue, Uncharted Books, is a new bookstore funded on Kickstarter which had a Tumblr blog before it was born. It’s a dream spot for book-web-community nerds and we absolutely can’t wait to see it (and all of you.)
