Re: X-files goof.Color laptops in 1989 dream on!

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Hank" <ahsv@GARBAGEphilipkdick.com.invalid> wrote in message
news:42d2bcfc.520848859@news.west.earthlink.net...
: Rumor has it that Bible John put forth the following:
:
: >Watching my new X-files DVD and in one episode which is a flashback to
: >1989 which explained how the Lone Gunman met and got together, and also
: >how they met Mulder.  During the episode a color laptop is used which is
: >impossible because color laptops did not exist in 1989!  As a matter of
: >fact, even color monitors were hard to come bye, and as best I can
: >recollect the only color computers in 1989 was the Apple IIgs and
: >Macintosh. I heavily used both PC's and Apple's in those days, and
: >never used or heard of a color PC, but used plenty of colors apples.
: >
: >If me and my ibook G4 were to go back in time to that year, my ibook
: >would be the most advanced and powerful computer on the planet, yet CC
: >makes it look like 1989 PC's could do things that modern computers
: >cannot in some of the scenes where Byers is searching through government
: >databases.  First in 1989 government databases would not look as nice
: >and richly formatted as CC portrays, and second a 1989 government
: >database would be accessed via a VT-100 Unix command prompt or shell and
: >there would be no such thing as a picture that goes along with a
: >government personnel profile! Perhaps CC is not as computer savvy as
: >people are led to believe.
: >
: >Computer experts am I correct?
:
: That's nothing.
:
: Did you *see* the suits they were wearing? I mean, c'mon!!! The lapels
were all
: wrong for the era. What's more in one seen one of the Gunmen use a Bic
: Stylu-Rite II pen, and as we all know those weren't available until, oh,
about
: 1994.
:
: Totally ruined the ep for me.

As was touched on earlier in the thread, let us remember that the X-Files
was also trying to convey the US Government's advance in technology that
was yet to be revealed to the majority public only in future years. They,
of course, had technology that was and never will be revealed to us.

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