Keyboards in movies/TV series!
- snacksthecat
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- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: SSK
- Main mouse: BenQ ZOWIE EC1-A
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IBM M5-2 at about 1:40 into the movie “Heat” in the police precinct.
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- Location: United States - San Diego
- Main keyboard: F122
- Main mouse: MX Master 3
- Favorite switch: Buckling spring
The keyboards used by the US Postal Service department that analyzes bad hand writing.
https://youtu.be/XxCha4Kez9c
https://youtu.be/XxCha4Kez9c
- browncow
- Location: Poland
- Main keyboard: Chicony 5161 - blue alps
- Main mouse: microsoft ime3.0
- Favorite switch: Futaba MA
Anybody try to recognize keyboards in this ridiculous 90s polish PC OEM Ad?
I love how they paint the angry >insert other inferior pc oem< user here as not even able to orient the mouse right
The ad loosely translated:
- It's easy to spend money and buy expensive computers.
- But your needs grow. And then what?
Dude throws the crt out of the window
- Replace your computer with OPTIMUS SA!
- Sensible prices. Worldwide quality.
- OPTIMUS SA. You're among the BEST!
Optimus was a polish PC OEM company that sold prebuilt systems made from off-shelf parts. Usually those were really budget systems, but at first they had some nice NTC 6251 keyboards with alps or aristotle mx clone switches. Later on they switched to silitek membrane boards. I got a few ntc 6251 myself because they were so plentiful in Poland.The ad loosely translated:
- It's easy to spend money and buy expensive computers.
- But your needs grow. And then what?
Dude throws the crt out of the window
- Replace your computer with OPTIMUS SA!
- Sensible prices. Worldwide quality.
- OPTIMUS SA. You're among the BEST!
- browncow
- Location: Poland
- Main keyboard: Chicony 5161 - blue alps
- Main mouse: microsoft ime3.0
- Favorite switch: Futaba MA
The "double Fed" button must be for some very special packagesJohnbo wrote: ↑08 Aug 2022, 19:19The keyboards used by the US Postal Service department that analyzes bad hand writing.
USPS_keyboard.jpg
https://youtu.be/XxCha4Kez9c
- paperWasp
- Location: Czech Republic, Europe
- Main keyboard: CHERRY G80-3000 S TKL
- Main mouse: Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse 2.0
- Favorite switch: MX Brown
Not so much a film, but a historic shot from a 1970's - 1980's telecommunication central. Wonder what those huge keyboards are?
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- webwit
- Wild Duck
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: Model F62
- Favorite switch: IBM beam spring
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According to the Internet it's the CETIN building in Prague and they are transferring calls. Maybe it's a Tesla or some other Eastern Bloc computer.
https://www.cnews.cz/mf-galerie/histori ... rafie-utb/
https://www.cnews.cz/mf-galerie/histori ... rafie-utb/
- paperWasp
- Location: Czech Republic, Europe
- Main keyboard: CHERRY G80-3000 S TKL
- Main mouse: Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse 2.0
- Favorite switch: MX Brown
The location is correct but I'm not sure about Tesla - but I'm no expert.
Your funny picture seems to come from neighbouring East Germany and the computers are probably Robotrons. (Reddit)
Your funny picture seems to come from neighbouring East Germany and the computers are probably Robotrons. (Reddit)
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
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Everyone could tell the DDR’s time was up when instead of parading manly missiles on Karl Marx’s barbershop day, they wheeled out what appeared to be the altogether less intimidating launch computers. But how, cried the Kremlinologists, could London, Bonn and Washingston’s destruction be guaranteed beyond a doubt when the codes were pecked on lousy rubberdomes like these, by lunch ladies?
The Berlin Wall fell within the week.
The Berlin Wall fell within the week.
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- Location: Des Moines / Cedar Falls, IA, USA
- Main keyboard: IBM Model F107
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Not sure this one has been brought up but was watching "Real Genius" and around 1 hour 25 minutes Laslo is using a symbolics board around 1:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psriMDJ2Iv8
- dcopellino
- Location: Italia - Napoli
- Main keyboard: IBM 4704 F400 brushed chrome
- Main mouse: Logitech laser wired
- Favorite switch: Buckling spring
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Any idea what type of keyboard is shown in the Silo TV series?
Or at least which keyboards inspired most the scenic interior decorators?
https://youtu.be/dnuA7vMXBZ8&t=1m19s
.... I'm asking on behalf of a friend
Or at least which keyboards inspired most the scenic interior decorators?
https://youtu.be/dnuA7vMXBZ8&t=1m19s
Spoiler:
- dcopellino
- Location: Italia - Napoli
- Main keyboard: IBM 4704 F400 brushed chrome
- Main mouse: Logitech laser wired
- Favorite switch: Buckling spring
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IBM model B 5251 in Italian (neapolitan) cult comical movie of '80s.
Have a dive into classic South Italy commonplace culture (pizza, mafia e mandolino).
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).
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- digital_matthew
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Ellipse Model F62
- Main mouse: It's a Secret.
- Favorite switch: Capacative Buckling Spring
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IBM 3278 in the 1991 martial arts cheese-fest "Tiger Claws":
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- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: Focus FK-2001 (white Alps)
- Favorite switch: ALPS SKCM Blue
Not quite film/TV but here's Mila Jovovich using a Model M during an AOL chat in 1995.
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
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Definitely counts. Nice find!
I recently discovered she herself constructed the bizarre language her character speaks in The Fifth Element (what a movie!) before she picks up English from Bruce Willis. When I saw it I thought she was just speaking her native language! But no, she constructed one.
She’s definitely a fully qualified nerd. One of us!
I recently discovered she herself constructed the bizarre language her character speaks in The Fifth Element (what a movie!) before she picks up English from Bruce Willis. When I saw it I thought she was just speaking her native language! But no, she constructed one.
She’s definitely a fully qualified nerd. One of us!
- digital_matthew
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Ellipse Model F62
- Main mouse: It's a Secret.
- Favorite switch: Capacative Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: -
Beam spring(?) on MST3K Agent Double 007:
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- Location: United States - San Diego
- Main keyboard: F122
- Main mouse: MX Master 3
- Favorite switch: Buckling spring
M122 in the Hagerty video about the EB110
https://youtu.be/OM2sUknP5Pg?t=1007
- digital_matthew
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Ellipse Model F62
- Main mouse: It's a Secret.
- Favorite switch: Capacative Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: -
IBM 5251 Display Station in the rollicking Stallone '80s action flick "Cobra":