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
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”
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
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!"
My fav. so far is the IMSAI 8080 in "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" (2007).
No listing for Wargames?
Of course: [https://www.starringthecomputer.com/feature.html?f=10]
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.
Tron https://digibarn.com/collections///systems/crays/cray1/Cray-...
I found ZX Spectrum! And it was not popular in movies
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
Commodore 64 film list is really impressive.. .