Die Hard keyboards!

madrobby · 24 Dec 2018, 21:20

Christmas movie time!

The keyboard in the security room at the beginning of the movie, when they lock out the elevators, seems to be a Model F XT.

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Did you spot any other boards?

Findecanor · 24 Dec 2018, 21:27

Mentioned here: Keyboards in movies/TV series!.

Muirium wrote: The Die Hard keyboard has a few features from the IBM PC/XT. The high hat caps, the wall of caps layout with 2u and 3u keys at the bottom right, and of course the pen holder! That's no Model F, though. No curve in the backplate. Could be one of its many clones.

Techno Trousers · 24 Dec 2018, 23:14

I definitely see a curve to the rows in that picture. Holding the picture sideways helps to see it.

madrobby · 25 Dec 2018, 00:47

The movie also sports a worst-of-all-worlds touchscreen keyboard.

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madrobby · 25 Dec 2018, 00:55

The movie appears to have product placement from Control Data. I’m not familiar if they did PCs in the late 80s, but perhaps it’s PC clones (and keyboards) from Control Data shown. These look vaguely like AT-class machines to me.

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matt3o · 25 Dec 2018, 08:24

just to be clear. Die Hard is not a Christmas movie. It's just a movie you watch for Christmas. EVERY Christmast!

Findecanor · 25 Dec 2018, 11:33

Heh. You can find many discussions whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie or not ...
Edit: I stumbled over this two seconds later without even trying:
https://stephenfollows.com/using-data-t ... mas-movie/

BTW. Myself I don't have any tradition of watching any particular movie over Christmas.

madrobby · 25 Dec 2018, 14:16

matt3o wrote: just to be clear. Die Hard is not a Christmas movie. It's just a movie you watch for Christmas. EVERY Christmast!

NOW I HAVE
A MODEL F
HO-HO-HO