| Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail(fabiensanglard.net) | |
| 936 points by vinhnx 57 days ago | 249 comments | |
tl;dr: A detailed teardown identifies every computer visible in Jurassic Park (1993), including Apple Powerbook 100s, Macintosh Quadra 700s, SGI Indigo and Crimson workstations, Thinking Machines CM-5 supercomputers (which replaced the book's Cray after Cray declined to loan hardware), and a pre-release Motorola Envoy PDA that Spielberg reportedly got via a chance meeting with frogdesign's founder. Apple and SGI loaned roughly $1.2M (about $4M today) in hardware, with real software like SGI's fsn file manager ("It's a Unix system!") and Earthwatch weather visualization powering the on-screen displays. | |
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