Terminator HUD from year 2029 has 6502 code
perhaps old news to this group (though I hadn't seen it discussed here...) but anyway, For Your Amusement: I was recently re-watching the first Terminator movie about a Cyborg from 2029 that comes back to 1984 (a plot I'm sure you're all familiar with...). The "data" that flashes up on the Terminator's Head-Up Display is actually Apple 6502 code out of a 1980's Nibble magazine! how's that for "futuristic"?! i literally laughed out loud when i saw it. of course I soon discovered that lots of folks have analyzed this :-) .. here's an old discussion thread ... http://www.pagetable.com/?p=64 pretty funny... - Glenn
"Bender" the robot from Futurama was shown to have a 6502 On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 11:02 AM Glenn Roberts via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
perhaps old news to this group (though I hadn't seen it discussed here...) but anyway, For Your Amusement:
I was recently re-watching the first Terminator movie about a Cyborg from 2029 that comes back to 1984 (a plot I'm sure you're all familiar with...). The "data" that flashes up on the Terminator's Head-Up Display is actually Apple 6502 code out of a 1980's Nibble magazine! how's that for "futuristic"?!
i literally laughed out loud when i saw it.
of course I soon discovered that lots of folks have analyzed this :-) .. here's an old discussion thread ...
http://www.pagetable.com/?p=64
pretty funny...
- Glenn
On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 11:02 AM Glenn Roberts via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I was recently re-watching the first Terminator movie about a Cyborg from 2029 that comes back to 1984 (a plot I'm sure you're all familiar with...). The "data" that flashes up on the Terminator's Head-Up Display is actually Apple 6502 code out of a 1980's Nibble magazine! how's that for "futuristic"?!
I recently watched the original Michael Chricton Westworld movie again and realized where James Cameron got his inspiration. The Yul Brynner android was the original Terminator. It was controlled by banks of minicomputers in the control center but also had the ability to self direct once the computers went offline. There are a fascinating few scenes when you are presented with the android’s visual point of view. The highly pixelated view is an great representation of computer image recognition with pixel pattern matching in action.
On Thu, 25 Jan 2018, Peter Cetinski via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 11:02 AM Glenn Roberts via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I was recently re-watching the first Terminator movie about a Cyborg from 2029 that comes back to 1984 (a plot I'm sure you're all familiar with...). The "data" that flashes up on the Terminator's Head-Up Display is actually Apple 6502 code out of a 1980's Nibble magazine! how's that for "futuristic"?!
I recently watched the original Michael Chricton Westworld movie again and realized where James Cameron got his inspiration. The Yul Brynner android was the original Terminator. It was controlled by banks of minicomputers in the control center but also had the ability to self direct once the computers went offline. There are a fascinating few scenes when you are presented with the android?s visual point of view. The highly pixelated view is an great representation of computer image recognition with pixel pattern matching in action.
... and did you notice the SAGE hardware in the Westworld control room? http://q7.neurotica.com/Q7/scifi/Westworld/ There's the right hald of a Duplex Maintenance console, and parts of the command post console. Mike Loewen mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
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