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  • Engineer Identifies & Explains Every ?90s Computer Seen In ?Jurassic Pa

    From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, July 16, 2026 04:37:32
    Subject: Engineer Identifies & Explains Every ?90s Computer Seen In ?Jurassic Park?

    ?This is a Unix system! I know this!?

    Every piece of computer hardware in the original ?Jurassic Park?
    hardware was real -- loaned by the vendors for use in the film. In the
    blog post linked to in this report, Google engineer Fabien Sanglard
    goes through it all -- including of course the SGI machines that were
    the subject of the famous line above.

    <https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/engineer-identifies-and-explains-every-90s-computer-seen-in-jurassic-park/>

    (RIP Sam Neill)

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  • From Ant@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, July 16, 2026 21:19:30
    Subject: Re: Engineer Identifies & Explains Every ?90s Computer Seen In ?Jurassic Park?

    This was awesome. Are there more of these?


    Lawrence D?Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
    ?This is a Unix system! I know this!?

    Every piece of computer hardware in the original ?Jurassic Park?
    hardware was real -- loaned by the vendors for use in the film. In the
    blog post linked to in this report, Google engineer Fabien Sanglard
    goes through it all -- including of course the SGI machines that were
    the subject of the famous line above.

    <https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/engineer-identifies-and-explains-every-90s-computer-seen-in-jurassic-park/>

    (RIP Sam Neill)
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  • From Jan van den Broek@3:633/10 to All on Friday, July 17, 2026 06:54:17
    Subject: Re: Engineer Identifies & Explains Every ?90s Computer Seen In ?Jurassic Park?

    2026-07-16, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> schrieb:
    This was awesome. Are there more of these?

    You mean like "Starring the Computer"?
    https://www.starringthecomputer.com/

    [Schnipp]
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  • From Ant@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, July 18, 2026 06:27:22
    Subject: Re: Engineer Identifies & Explains Every ?90s Computer Seen In ?Jurassic Park?

    Jan van den Broek <balglaas@dds.nl> wrote:
    2026-07-16, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> schrieb:
    This was awesome. Are there more of these?

    You mean like "Starring the Computer"?
    https://www.starringthecomputer.com/

    [Schnipp]

    Even better. Thanks. :)
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  • From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, July 18, 2026 06:57:37
    Subject: Re: Engineer Identifies & Explains Every ?90s Computer Seen In ?Jurassic Park?

    On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:54:17 -0000 (UTC), Jan van den Broek wrote:

    https://www.starringthecomputer.com/

    Which one has the longest list of entries <https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computers.html>? I think it?s a
    toss-up between the Commodore 64 <https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=66> and the IBM
    AN/FSQ-7 <https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=73>.

    I don?t think any of the latter featured as actual working units. They
    were huge mainframe computers, built for the US Air Force SAGE system
    to guard against attack by Soviet nuclear bombers. Billions were spent
    to build and run the system for about a decade, before the whole thing
    was decommissioned as it became clear that the main threat would
    henceforth come from ICBMs. It was never used in anger, of course;
    some felt that it would never have worked anyway.

    Pieces kept popping up in movies and TV for many years after the
    system was dismantled, since buying and adapting those second-hand
    parts was usually cheaper than building your own props from scratch.
    And they looked pretty impressive, too.

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  • From David Lesher@3:633/10 to All on Friday, July 24, 2026 05:47:34
    Subject: Re: Engineer Identifies & Explains Every ?90s Computer Seen In ?Jurassic Park?

    Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

    IBM >AN/FSQ-7 <https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=73>.

    I don't think any of the latter featured as actual working units. They
    were huge mainframe computers, built for the US Air Force SAGE system
    to guard against attack by Soviet nuclear bombers. Billions were spent
    to build and run the system for about a decade, before the whole thing
    was decommissioned as it became clear that the main threat would
    henceforth come from ICBMs. It was never used in anger, of course;
    some felt that it would never have worked anyway.

    There was the minor problem pointed out by Les Ernest: it could
    not deal with radar jamming, so TPTB just pretended it didn't
    exist. AND as it turns out, the USSR long-range bomber fleet
    was ~5-6 total aircraft.


    Pieces kept popping up in movies and TV for many years after the
    system was dismantled, since buying and adapting those second-hand
    parts was usually cheaper than building your own props from scratch.
    And they looked pretty impressive, too.

    A wall of blinking lamps was purchased by a Hollywood prop shop
    and used by Irwin Allen in Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of
    the Sea, etc. and many of his other schlocky series of the
    era.


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