IBM's AN-FSQ-7 panels from 1950s SAGE have shown up in a huge number of movies. They are still showing up in new movies. Woody's Electrical Props in LA rents them out.[1]
Those slanted panels aren't the computer. Those are the modems.
Fun Fact: in king of queens, most of the pcs (for example airport episode with doug's parents) are just RCT tvs with paper printout of a screen taped over it.
While not a movie, a bunch of NeXT Cubes (at least the monitors) were used in a Madonna video --- apparently some production company got a good deal on machines intended for Japan (hence the katakana interface)
What timing. I was just preparing my Sony Vaio PCT-C1MHP only yesterday to try and sell. I remember seeing this in a movie around 2000 (probably Charlies Angels) and got one.
That seems like an odd distinction if it's clearly portraying a Cray. It's not like we have any proof that e.g. the Commodore 64 used in Mr. Robot was the real deal.
Pairs nicely with https://accessmaincomputerfile.net/ (although that site might not be working any longer).
IBM's AN-FSQ-7 panels from 1950s SAGE have shown up in a huge number of movies. They are still showing up in new movies. Woody's Electrical Props in LA rents them out.[1]
Those slanted panels aren't the computer. Those are the modems.
[1] https://woodysprops.com/item.php?uid=122&page=4
Similar: https://www.imcdb.org/ IMCDB, the Internet Movie Car Database
Fun Fact: in king of queens, most of the pcs (for example airport episode with doug's parents) are just RCT tvs with paper printout of a screen taped over it.
While not a movie, a bunch of NeXT Cubes (at least the monitors) were used in a Madonna video --- apparently some production company got a good deal on machines intended for Japan (hence the katakana interface)
Cool, what video?
It's "Rain" (1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15kWlTrpt5k
With Ryûichi Sakamoto as The Director.
He’s the reason Mogwai have a track called “Ritchie Sacramento”
What timing. I was just preparing my Sony Vaio PCT-C1MHP only yesterday to try and sell. I remember seeing this in a movie around 2000 (probably Charlies Angels) and got one.
https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=64
"A machine of this make was Yelena's choice to confirm Xander's car payment and facilitate image uploads of Yorgi's safe!"
I remember seeing the TRS-80's in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou but I didn't know that they were Model IV's.
According to this list, there was a TRS-80 Model III in the Star Wars TV series Andor:
Andor - Season 1, Episode 1, "Kassa" (2022)
“sort by year” is buried on the site, but definitely a fun way to sort
there should also be a “you can spot the villain early since they’re the only one not using Apple” sub-list
The sort by year option, since it took me a while to find it: https://www.starringthecomputer.com/featuresyear.html
My fav. so far is the IMSAI 8080 in "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" (2007).
I found ZX Spectrum! And it was not popular in movies
I feel like the movie Hackers should have more entries.
No Cray appearances? Surprising.
Sneakers.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/95izj7/sneake...
On the 'help' page, the Cray-like machine from the film Sneakers is listed under "Honourable mentions":
https://www.starringthecomputer.com/help.html
From the site:
> The following films do not appear on the site because I believe the computers they feature are mock ups and therefore do not qualify.
That seems like an odd distinction if it's clearly portraying a Cray. It's not like we have any proof that e.g. the Commodore 64 used in Mr. Robot was the real deal.
Tron https://digibarn.com/collections///systems/crays/cray1/Cray-...
Huh. I always thought that there was a Cray in Wargames.
No listing for Wargames?
Of course: [https://www.starringthecomputer.com/feature.html?f=10]
Commodore 64 film list is really impressive.. .
Ones in the List I have used :)
* CDC 6600
* DEC VAX 11/780 (IIRC)
* Honeywell H200, did not expect to see this on the list
* IBM S/370 (IIRC)
* IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads - 760, T43, T420, T61, W500
* Wang Professional Computer - these were bomb proof. I had a 16 bit Unix running on this.
* Wang WLTC