Keyboards in movies/TV series!

[chzel]

Yeah! Only a bit less pixelated!

[Muirium]

Okay…

[Grond]

Yea "Baraka" is a good film, although I prefere the very similar and more recent "Samsara". No keyboards there though!

[JanitorJoe]

Some keyboard discrepancies I noticed while watching Pirates of Silicon Valley about a month back while I was looking to buy a Model F.

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Scene starts out with a close up of Bill Gates typing on what looks like a Model F XT.

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Then zooms out to show him typing on a Model F AT.

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And to top it off, the scene takes place in 1980 before Microsoft had pitched DOS to IBM and before either the XT or AT were first made.

[Muirium]

Congratulations. Now you know how infuriating Mad Men is to watch for period fashion experts. THAT NEVER CAME OUT THAT YEAR WHAT WERE THEY THINKING I CAN'T EVEN

Those keyboards look and sound 1980 to everyone who hasn't caught the Model F bug hard enough to check the history. Next you'll be accurately dating cigarette packets and garter belts! It's all a matter of expertise…

[klikkyklik]

LOL! You guys are awesome.

[Hak Foo]

The existence of the standard "5150, 5160, or clone" look case and monitor in the back doesn't help the illusion either,

[Halvar]

They used a proportional font for the mirrored green screen letters in the last picture! That is totally screwed up!

[zslane]

Are you sure? I think those are just spaces between the periods...

[Halvar]

Sure,

c:\program
LOADING . . .

The p of program should be exactly under the D of LOADING.
The : is much too thin.

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c:\program
LOADING . . .

[Muirium]

Halvar's right, of course. Well spotted!

Mixed case, naturally spaced, fonts were well beyond DOS and Microsoft. IBM's fancier systems of the time did look like that, however. I'm sure someone posted an open type file of the IBM terminal font of the era here a while ago.

[Grond]

Terminator 2 (1991). "I'm the only black man in the whole picture and baby, I'm this close to destroy mankind!"

[Ozric]

Halt & Catch Fire s02e09

[elecplus]

Hawaii Five-O 1974 http://pc-triage.com/blog/?p=3125

[BiNiaRiS]

Anyone ever posted the Pixar documentary that has a G80-5000 in it?

[snoopy]

did anybody spot a 4704 in movie/series yet?

[Muirium]

Well, it's a banking system. Seems unlikely. But the place to see it would be in movies set in banks!



Nah, too early.

[Grond]

"The Dark Knight" (2008). A nice trackball and Batman's own keyboard.

[snoopy]

So Batman uses fat ass enter key?

[Grond]

I must say, that looks kind of a cheap keyboard for a billionaire super hero.

[sth]

sorry if this was posted already but i saw an SGI in this video @ 2:40

https://youtu.be/oH3juXzltIA?t=159

[Findecanor]

Yep, that machine looks like a SGI Indy with some variation of SGI bigfoot keyboard. The user interface on the screen looks like their window manager 4DWM. Some demo programs that came pre-installed on SGI machines did have flying buttons like those in the beginning. ("button fly" )

[mr_a500]

Check out this keyboard in the 1981 Doctor Who episode, Logopolis:

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I thought it looked familiar. Compare it to the one I posted from the 1979 Incredible Hulk episode:




I think it's the same keyboard!

[mr_a500]

I knew it looked like Micro Switch. I just found an earlier version of the keyboard with round keycaps. It's a data conversion keyboard for a Honeywell system.

[Grond]

Slither (2006)



Goodbye Lenin (2003)

[studyourheart]

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I know it's only the packaging, but here are some Datahand boxes in the 1998 movie Rounders!

[mr_a500]

Wow, you must have sharp eyeballs. I've seen that movie, but never noticed that. I notice interesting keyboards in movies, but never boxes of keyboards - except these Atari 1200XL boxes in Cloak & Dagger (1984), but they had pictures of the keyboard on the box:

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[Grond]

Who you gonna call?

[mr_a500]

In the top photo looks like a DEC DecMate II and in the bottom a Franklin Ace 1000 and a Cromemco C10. (& System 1?)

[Grond]

Ghost (1990)