deskthority

Apologies for resurrecting a rather old post, just looking through this topic for the first time!

Muirium wrote: ↑

31 Jan 2015, 00:38

To be fair, Amigas and green text on black screens is pretty hypermodern as far as the Red Dwarf universe goes. They often used to punch commands into vertical keyboards attached the walls, as I remember. Which was all odd, given Holly the AI and all that. Seemed a comic cross of 2001 and Alien as far as the tech aesthetic went, only more screwed up than either!

ISTR (from memory of the programme and from my office 30 years ago, and without actually checking either of them...) that most of the keyboards on Red Dwarf, the brown, wall-mounted ones, appeared to be from Philips P4000 terminals; or possibly P7000s, which looked similar but were probably completely different. I never used either computer, the P4000 being some strange 16-bit multi-user mini that had a fondness for Cobol. The keyboards looked dreadful to type on, very flat and short-travel, sort of a forerunner of the Apple type; but they were also incredibly heavy, made of some sort of die-cast alloy covered in the usual range of beige and brown paint that was popular a good 10 years or so before my time there. They 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!

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

vometia wrote: ↑

24 Jul 2019, 12:20

They 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)

mr_a500 wrote: ↑

24 Jul 2019, 12:40

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)

The ZX81-style controls on Hieronymus, our Bosch washing machine, drive me absolutely nuts. He's actually really good and at over 10 years old has lasted pretty well, especially as thanks to the "helpful" green restrictions we have to run him twice for each load, the second one to actually properly rinse the stuff. But that's not his fault.

What is annoying is the fact that I need to press the "do something, dammit!" button at least four times before he gets the message. Even speaking as someone who is the real life equivalent of that before finally going "oh yeah!" I find it intensely irritating. Fortunately, washing machines tend to be weighed down by hefty lumps of concrete so there isn't too much risk of me throwing him out the window in a fit of pique.

Ah yes. My ZX81-style stove controls are similar. If I press the "do something, dammit!" button slightly too hard, it does a double-press and gives an error sound - like it's saying, "No, fuck off and do it again!"

I hate that stove.

Bounce: the scourge of the universe.

Well, for buttons.

What is a Gateway 2000 - AnyKey Keyboard doing in doom eternal?
Look at it It's connected to a PC terminal located in doom slayer base. It's the key to access to an Ester egg where you can play at the old versions of doom and doom II. Let me know if I am right about the keyboard identification....
Ciao

Yes, that very much looks like an Anykey to me! Good spot, and contemporary with Doom!

I spotted this Topre Realforce 106 and Microsoft Intellimouse in the anime Steins;Gate ... In Japanese fashion, the Delete key has a different spelling though ...

A Sharp X68000 is also shown prominently. Central to the plot is a "IBN 5100", which has a slightly different appearance from the real-world IBM 5100
IBM did sponsor a short with the main characters, which had a drawn actual IBM 5100 (not the fictive replacement) in it for a couple of frames.

A whole pile of F and M 122s just lying around in 'The Sopranos. I wanted so bad to reach back in time and rescue them. I just hope some of them wound up on some of your desks.

Looks like a Chicony 5161 in Beverly Hills Cop 3:

Ahahah, on the right they are counting the money for a beamspring purchasing.

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.

Hi - my first post here after signing up for membership following two/three months of lurking.

This is a poster from 'Silent Running' in the early 70s. I'd never paid attention to the computers in this film before finding the Deskthority site, but I guess that the keyboards are Sperrys or Univacs of some kind. I don't know enough to be more specific than that.

Saved these a couple of weeks/days/months ago? What is time during COVID? Anyone want to guess the film?

How about this?

John Doe wrote: ↑

23 May 2020, 14:10

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How about this?

Oh yeah nice! That was such an awesome show

Whatever this thing is in Leviathan (1989) Boy what an awesome build that rig would be

Wyse WY-30 from Counterpart
Excellent series, by the way

Guys, I don't have that image, but I remember there was a movie in 90s - cannot remember title - it was about some boy that was using computer a lot, he had this modem that had to put the phone handset on it to connect - this is only one scene I remember.
I think he was also using CB radio...

It wasn't War Games.

Do you know what could it be?

Caution: Twin Peaks Season 2 spoilers!

Unfortunately hard to get a good glimpse, but here's a Macintosh Portable from Twin Peaks used by

phinix wrote: ↑

03 Aug 2020, 17:03

Guys, I don't have that image, but I remember there was a movie in 90s - cannot remember title - it was about some boy that was using computer a lot, he had this modem that had to put the phone handset on it to connect - this is only one scene I remember.
I think he was also using CB radio...

It wasn't War Games.

Do you know what could it be?

Any vague memories of the plot or the genre? This unfortunately sounds like every 80s/90s hacker movie ever made
Could be Brainscan, which would be a horror movie. War Games would've been my first guess after reading your description. There is also Lightning: Fire from the Sky, where Jesse Eisenberg used his mad hax0r skills to help his father (who is a scientist of course) to predict some deadly storms and where they strike next. Possibilities are unfortunately endless.

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):

... and don't miss the DataHand inside the pod!

Findecanor wrote: ↑

10 Aug 2020, 23:37

... and don't miss the DataHand inside the pod!

Huh?



You're right: the pod's chair has DataHands on the armrests.



What a coincidence: I was just reading about the DataHand on Xah Lee's website today.

Either our squad in The Wire is griping about their antiquated technology or Kima is curious about what year her oval badge is.

Anyone watch the Wonder Woman trailer?

Gah...

We see a view from present-day Shibuya, Tokyo (with the Shibuya Stream sky-rise, completed in 2018) with a video screen showing the US president (?) talk.
With uninterrupted audio, cut to... a news room crammed with 1980's IBM PCs and a 1980's TV set, and the same broadcast flickers on on the TV and on IBM 5153 CGA monitors. (OK, NTSC-to-CGA adaptors would be relatively trivial. EDIT: But display like s**t because the 5153 takes digital input so it is hard-limited to 16 colours) One PC has a Cherry G80-9009 Reuters keyboard (manufactured 1995-2005).
And no typewriters?

Bingo. Pretty orgasmic to see all that gear crammed in one shot and in HD. Makes you wonder who the enthusiast behind those props was. I doubt some of that stuff would have existed in the same setting.