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.
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
“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
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.
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)
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”
I feel like the movie Hackers should have more entries.
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
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
No Cray appearances? Surprising.
Tron https://digibarn.com/collections///systems/crays/cray1/Cray-...
Sneakers.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/95izj7/sneake...
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