Re: Apple ]['s on the big screen

[Toby Reiter <treiter@cs.oberlin.edu>]

On 30 May 1997, Jeffery C McLean wrote:

> Stavros Robert Karatsoridis (skaratso@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu) wrote:
> : Michael Hrusovsky (en332@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote:
> 
> : :  How about the movie Star Trek IV "The Voyage Home"
> : : I believe Scotty uses a IIc to make a molecular model of transparent Aluminum.
> : : Or something to that effect
> : :                              /\/\ike
> 
> : No, He used an original model (as in 1984--128K) Macintosh. I still think
> : it's funny to see him try to talk into the mouse to give the computer
> : commands.  "Keyboards. How quaint!"

> Actually I think it's a "Mac Classic" same thing but a bit newer box

I'm pretty sure that it is a Mac 128k/512k/plus (i.e. beige case).
(Remember it was supposed to be 1987). I haven't seen the movie recently,
so I'm thinking that it could have been an SE, but nothing newer. I'm
pretty sure (based upon the amount of stuff going on on the screen, as
well as the speed), that it must have been a Mac Plus.

> What I find interesting is that he used the keyboard...
What I find more interesting is that, somehow, without looking, he knew
all the keyboard commands necessary to do what he was doing.  Funny thing,
I don't think they would even have the software package he needed to do
what he was doing available on Mac by that point.

Toby

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