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Re: Apple II on "Lost"
In <aa85j15rhoaqln6k44lc55le4g3l29vb1h@4ax.com> 8-Bit Classics wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 03:08:32 -0400, Scott <scottm9000@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 22:17:30 -0400, Zorin the Lynx <yakko@zorin.org>
>>wrote:
>>>Anyone watch tonight's "Lost"?
>>>
>>>I won't spoil any plot details, but...
>>>
>>>A genuine Apple II is being used as a prop. I could also make out two
>>>boxes that looked (from the side) like Disk ][s, and the monitor
>>>looked like an Apple Monitor ///. The "prompt" that was displayed
>>>didn't look like anything an Apple II can natively produce, though.
>>>No Apple logos visible anywhere. It was nice to see our favorite
>>>vintage computer on a new TV show, though! Hopefully we'll see more
>>>of it next week, even if it's used unrealistically. }:)
>>I noticed that too. I think it's a ][+ but I'm not sure. Along with 2
>>5.25 Apple disk ][ drives beside it and what looked like the Integer
>>BASIC prompt on the screen. I wanna know where they got an "Execute"
>>key. :)
> Not sure, but looks like a throw back from the cold war era. Maybe a
> missile silo hidden around.
Time to quote the scariest Apple II story again:
Steve Jobs, Playboy magazine interview, 1985
"..we discovered that, at least as of a few years ago, every tactical
nuclear weapon in Europe manned by U.S. personnel was targeted by an
Apple II computer. Now, we didn't sell computers to the military; they
went out and bought them at a dealer's, I guess. But it didn't make us
feel good to know that our computers were being used to target nuclear
weapons in Europe. The only bright side of it was that at least they
weren't [Radio Shack] TRS-80s! Thank God for that."
--
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
http://roger.geek.nz/
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