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

["Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com>]

On 2005-06-28, Bible John wrote:
> 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.

   And, way ahead of either, the Amiga, introduced in 1985.

> 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?


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