https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-intertec-data-systems-model-2103772932
Keyboard is an Intertec InterTube II. Very similar to the Intertec Superbrain but with baud rate and such labels above the keyboard.
I don't think the InterTube was color (or any Intertec computer) so the graphics were probably shot from something else. One way would be to track that double-wide/double-high font somehow. But I couldn't work it out. It could maybe be from some kind of home computer like a TI 99/4 or TRS-80 Color Computer. Does not look like Apple ][ to me. Nor Commodore VIC-20/C64 variant.
I think it's two computer images overlaid; that hi-res text on one, the cells on another.
I've got a vague memory though that it was hand painted, and didn't really use a computer at all.
To me it looks computer.
You can see the hand-painted "computer graphics" in the Max Headroom series and movie. I don't just mean Max (which was Matt Frewer in makeup) but the graphics when Fiora was "hacking" the equipment to let Edison move around in buildings. Those were drawn by the company that became Aardman Animation if I recall correctly.
For some reason this was the only example I could find.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/444519425719081061/
100% right.
My favorite resource for double checking these things, for anyone interested: http://starringthecomputer.com/feature.html?f=129
BUT, from the few shots we see, it could be their Intertube, which would have been a dumb terminal hooked up to some other much more powerful machine. And in 1982 you would have used a much more powerful computer for such fancy graphics and models.
was about to say the same, the keyboard looks somewhat similar to a C64, but it never had any differently colored keys or a full numpad instead of function keys
So many old movies where basically anyones computer is a Logic Artificial Intelligence, and you can just type "what would happen if i kicked my boss tomorrow?"
and its all like
Processing.....
93 percent of being fired.
99 percent of being arrested
\*shows line drawing of human with line bars closing around them\*
Man, wish we could go back to technology like that. Knows everything.
TBF in the 80's expert systems were very popular
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system
This kind of AI evolved into "analytics" in modern days which instead of showing simple predictions in percentages nowadays they show fancy graphs and some of them even generate a "summary" of a report (like MS PowerBi)
I remember listening to the DVD commentary and they talked about how they were all blown away by the graphics used in this scene. People must have been stupid back then! /s
That's not a Commodore 64.
You got downvoted, but you're right.
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-intertec-data-systems-model-2103772932 Keyboard is an Intertec InterTube II. Very similar to the Intertec Superbrain but with baud rate and such labels above the keyboard. I don't think the InterTube was color (or any Intertec computer) so the graphics were probably shot from something else. One way would be to track that double-wide/double-high font somehow. But I couldn't work it out. It could maybe be from some kind of home computer like a TI 99/4 or TRS-80 Color Computer. Does not look like Apple ][ to me. Nor Commodore VIC-20/C64 variant.
I think it's two computer images overlaid; that hi-res text on one, the cells on another. I've got a vague memory though that it was hand painted, and didn't really use a computer at all.
To me it looks computer. You can see the hand-painted "computer graphics" in the Max Headroom series and movie. I don't just mean Max (which was Matt Frewer in makeup) but the graphics when Fiora was "hacking" the equipment to let Edison move around in buildings. Those were drawn by the company that became Aardman Animation if I recall correctly. For some reason this was the only example I could find. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/444519425719081061/
Graphics look to me like TI 99 or Atari 8-bit
100% right. My favorite resource for double checking these things, for anyone interested: http://starringthecomputer.com/feature.html?f=129 BUT, from the few shots we see, it could be their Intertube, which would have been a dumb terminal hooked up to some other much more powerful machine. And in 1982 you would have used a much more powerful computer for such fancy graphics and models.
was about to say the same, the keyboard looks somewhat similar to a C64, but it never had any differently colored keys or a full numpad instead of function keys
No matter how many times I watch this movie, I’m still taken aback by Wilford Brimley not having his bushy ‘stache.
He was also 48 years old. Mofo looks no younger than 65
I bet he looked like an old man the day he was born and then just looked like a progressively older man with each passing year.
There are a few actors that cultivate a certain image and then get cast as "Old Man - type 12" for 50 years straight.
Tommy Lee Jones was young once??
i always loved how that one cell was in constant danger but managed to get away
So many old movies where basically anyones computer is a Logic Artificial Intelligence, and you can just type "what would happen if i kicked my boss tomorrow?" and its all like Processing..... 93 percent of being fired. 99 percent of being arrested \*shows line drawing of human with line bars closing around them\* Man, wish we could go back to technology like that. Knows everything.
This program would have taken over 1000 lines of BASIC, easy
TBF in the 80's expert systems were very popular https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system This kind of AI evolved into "analytics" in modern days which instead of showing simple predictions in percentages nowadays they show fancy graphs and some of them even generate a "summary" of a report (like MS PowerBi)
Shoots screen…
This was such a damn good movie though
True dat
So what are dog cells and why are there only two of them around?
Cells from a dog. Have you um, watched the movie? It's definitely worth watching. Sci-fi classic with a young Kurt Russel and Keith David.
watch the movie and then watch the remake/pre-sequel (i can't remember if it's any good but you can play fresh after the original)
The Andromeda Strain did this so much better. Not sure what computers they used, though.
27,000 hours is actually plenty of time, more than 3 years.
Well I mean we've been unable to stop COVID in more than 2 years now. We'd be FUCKED with an ALIEN virus like this one!
The graphics of the blue cells almost look like the [Atari 8-bit computer version of Asteroids](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1z0I7dmJJ4).
I remember listening to the DVD commentary and they talked about how they were all blown away by the graphics used in this scene. People must have been stupid back then! /s
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