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Engineer identifies and explains every '90s computer seen in Jurassic Park (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by IcedRaktajino@startrek.website to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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Yes, it was, in fact, a Unix system.

Everything in the set was real. We couldn’t fake any of it, because audiences are so sophisticated now in their knowledge of computers. All told, $875,000 worth of computer hardware loaned by Silicon Graphics, $350,000 worth from Apple and some $500,000 in additional hardware and software went into equipping both the set and off-stage control room.

The Ars article is just a summary of this: https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html

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[–] homes@piefed.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I love that there are a bunch of computers running Apple’s A/UX, their home-spun implementation of UNIX. Very niche

Odd that the author of this article didn’t take the opportunity to mention it.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Motorola Envoy is a proto-smartphone developed with technology from General Magic. It is a hideously expensive and niche device and yet it barely appears in the film.

The head of frogdesign (Hartmut Esslinger) ended up running into Spielberg on a plane and showed it to him. The one in the movie is an original mockup

Jesus. That's almost more impressive than Nedry's "ah-ah-ah!" being animated in pre-alpha After Effects, because the right people ran across the designers at a Mac convention.

On Ray Arnold's desk, we can notice a weird keyboard with a connector on the side. This is a SGI Granite Keyboard (Indigo Style). It is a pretty cool keyboard with two 6 Pin Mini-DIN connectors on each side. The keyboard can be connected to the workstation from either side and the mouse is to be daisy-chained into the other port.

The original iMac did this! The less said about that mouse, the better.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

The original iMac did this! The less said about that mouse, the better.

Puck you, Ives