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Not quite film/TV but here's Mila Jovovich using a Model M during an AOL chat in 1995.

IBM model B 5251 in Italian (neapolitan) cult comical movie of '80s. That's a typical case of lost in translation. I don't think any of you have never watched such a lovely movie whose title is "pacco, doppio pacco e contropaccotto" that should sound something like "Fraud, double fraud and counter cheat".
Have a dive into classic South Italy commonplace culture (pizza, mafia e mandolino).

Season 4 of Stranger Things has a few vintage keyboards!

Episode 1: Amiga 1000


Episode 2: Kaypro II


Episode 2: Model F XT

TNT wrote: 23 May 2021, 05:16 invincible.png

Did those two dimwits burn a Model F XT?

Ahh I see, a man of culture as well

Did those two dimwits burn a Model F XT?

sharktastica wrote: 03 Mar 2021, 01:41 Model M in Stargate SG-1: Season 2, Episode 15 - "The Fifth Race". Seen around 16 and a half minutes in, during the scene where Jack O'Neill is entering new Stargate addresses into the computer.

You can see Model Ms in the Stargate control room in many episodes.

I started watching Stargate SG-1 in 2007 when it got picked up by a "basic cable" channel over here. I wanted to check it out because a friend of mine who had died suddenly a couple of years before had been a really big fan. The show had inspired him so much that he had enrolled at a university course in Egyptology.
I had known him because we were also Star Wars fans. He had been active on comics message boards where he had befriended Star Wars comics authors and artists, so much that his board-name got included in a frame of a comic book as the name of one of several Jedi fallen during the Clone Wars.
However, as a sad coincidence ... the issue of the comic book got written and sent to the printers right before but got out into stores right after his abrupt death, making it much too timely.

sharktastica wrote: 03 Mar 2021, 01:41 Model M in Stargate SG-1: Season 2, Episode 15 - "The Fifth Race". Seen around 16 and a half minutes in, during the scene where Jack O'Neill is entering new Stargate addresses into the computer.


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This is my favorite TV show when I was a teenager! I remember watching every episode. And now I only remember some of the characters, and I probably don’t remember the plot, because I’ve watched so many different films. You should definitely watch this show again!

Model M in Stargate SG-1: Season 2, Episode 15 - "The Fifth Race". Seen around 16 and a half minutes in, during the scene where Jack O'Neill is entering new Stargate addresses into the computer.

Here's a white label Model M in Chain Reaction (1996). Keanu Reeves is trying to shut down an overload.
Strangely, left ALT is missing.

Another shot of a Model F from Space Mutiny via MST3K. Note the conspicuously absent IBM logo:
That beam spring explosion is rough. I put that up there with the needless destruction of the Lamborghini Miura in the beginning of the original Italian Job.

Space Mutiny 1988. Model M, 3104 Model F, 4704 F107, Wheelwriter?

Contact (1997)

Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster's character) at Arecibo radiotelescope:




Computer is an IBM PS/2, with an ITT XTRA/101 keyboard...


...and what appears to be a Microspeed PC-Trak Trackball


Later on, at the New Mexico VLA, we see a very dirty Apple Extended Keyboard II.


There's also this unit with a Big Ass Enter key, which I haven't been able to identify.


During the climax sequence, the control room is equipped with a sizeable number of Kinesis keyboards (that specific model evades me, however):

Two Model Fs (XT and terminal 3178) at Greendale Community College's library in Community, season 4 episode 7 "Economics of Marine Biology". Unfortunately, something bad happens to the XT soon afterwards.

Here's a Teletype Model 40 keyboard in Runaway (1984):

vometia wrote: 24 Jul 2019, 12:20They do have quite a cool aesthetic but I think I'd have lost the will to live if I'd had to work on them!

There are many keyboards I've been forced to use that made me lose the will to live. (and a few I nearly smashed in violent anger)

JP! wrote: 02 Mar 2019, 03:11 Wow I did not see that one coming

Indeed. A terminal Model M?

IBM model M keyboard in Video Game High School (TV series 2012-2014)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2170584/


[youtube]https://youtu.be/JDO6dF6O7yM?t=346[/youtube]

webwit wrote: Ready Player One... ehm, one half of an Ergodox stuck to IBM Model F 122???

As auxiliary macro pads go, I suppose this one could work rather oddly...

Ready Player One... ehm, one half of an Ergodox stuck to IBM Model F 122???

An IBM Model M in Peter Parker's room, from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man (2002). Missing a few important keys, I think.

Rise of the Centaur has a couple sightings that I've noticed.

Glenn Henry (one of the founders, and the president of Centaur Technology) is shown as having a beige Unicomp Customizer or Classic 101 (he is an IBM Fellow...): And Suresh Hariharan's (another Centaur engineer) very aggressively tented) Model M15: (It's a thinly veiled VIA CPU ad, but it's quite interesting to watch for many reasons.)

Congratulations. Now you know how infuriating Mad Men is to watch for period fashion experts. THAT NEVER CAME OUT THAT YEAR WHAT WERE THEY THINKING I CAN'T EVEN

Those keyboards look and sound 1980 to everyone who hasn't caught the Model F bug hard enough to check the history. Next you'll be accurately dating cigarette packets and garter belts! It's all a matter of expertise…

Some keyboard discrepancies I noticed while watching Pirates of Silicon Valley about a month back while I was looking to buy a Model F.
Scene starts out with a close up of Bill Gates typing on what looks like a Model F XT.
Then zooms out to show him typing on a Model F AT.
And to top it off, the scene takes place in 1980 before Microsoft had pitched DOS to IBM and before either the XT or AT were first made.

Hmm.. I looked around a little for that last one. It is apparently a late-model Xerox Star workstation keyboard but the top case must have been painted. The same layout can be seen here.

Ozric wrote: Halt & Catch Fire s02e03

That's a 122-key Model F terminal keyboard, and an IBM 3180 terminal.

The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin - documentary
49:54
IBM Model M (not sure but looks IBM Model M to me)

At 0:19 a keyboard is thrown into a window - would be more effective with a Beam Spring or some Model F metal keyboard!

Somebody finally uploaded the Hawaii Five O (1974-75) episode, Computer Killer. It's one of the earliest TV examples of computer hacking - and it's pretty realistic too.
There's the ADDS Envoy a Lockheed System III an IBM 1052 console for System/360 and whatever the hell this is There are also a couple Model 33 Teletypes and various big computer tape drives.

Documentary on Lilly Ledbetter looks to have a Model M.

Model F keyboards are everywhere in 80's movies and TV. I could post hundreds of screenshots.

Here are some scenes from "Sledge Hammer!" with a Model F in the foreground:
(That show also has Amiga 1000, Hazeltine 1500, EPSON, and various other keyboards.)

ray4jc wrote: Saw a model F xt on Sabrina the teenage witch.

I'm going to have to go ahead and demand PICS!