Re: IIc+ in a movie

["Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au>]

Greg Buchner <nobody@mn.rr.com> wrote in message
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> In article <9op8mm$h5$1@lust.ihug.co.nz>,
>  "Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@mac.com> wrote:
>
> > In a scene in 2010 (from 1984) Dr. Heywood Floyd sits on the beach using
an
> > Apple IIc, complete with the clip-on LCD screen. Presumably it had a
battery
> > too, although I can't remember if the IIc was actually running.
>
> If I remember right, you never saw it from the front...and it wasn't
> plugged into anything.

yes that's right, the LCD screen is facing away by ~10deg all the time. The
screen doesn't appear to be clipped-on to me, just sitting on top of the IIc
and on a slight angle off parallel to the back. Having a DVD now helps to
see what garbage he types too, which goes something like this:

<space> <space> M M
K K K K
<space> <space> <space>

At least that looks like garbage to me.

The only cable on the IIc is the blue ribbon cable to the LCD, there are no
visible power cords. You would have to assume that there is nothing on the
screen, because 1. there is no power, 2. a battery is not available from
Apple at the time AFAIK, 3. the LCD is hidden from the viewer, and 4. Dr.
Floyd is typing garbage.

Understandably there is no mouse either, well sand doesn't like mice. And I
guess the optical mouse technology wasn't available until recently.

Another thing I don't like in that scene is that his OMNI magazine and Space
Flight manual are facing the camera and not Dr. Floyd. Who ever puts
magazines down that they are reading facing away from them. _No_one_.

Now to work out what Scotty typed on the Macintosh Plus(?) in Star Trek IV -
The Voyage Home.

Mark