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[JamesD]

Briza1, on Thu Dec 1, 2011 12:06 AM, said:

Blues76, on Sat Nov 26, 2011 10:35 AM, said:

I think it will look cutting edge for today's standards. We will have to wait and see.

Who do you want Ally to be? Megan Fox ? (no...) who? make your pick!

Lolz yeah has to be Megan Fox

Sorry, Megan Fox is too old to play a teenager. She's the wrong type anyway.

Edited by JamesD, Thu Dec 1, 2011 1:54 PM.

[JamesD]

jaybird3rd, on Fri Nov 25, 2011 8:05 PM, said:

Blues76, on Fri Nov 25, 2011 7:53 PM, said:

So, it was a PC, sort of IBM compatible? I guess so from the specs I just read.

It was introduced several years before the PC. I've never seen one personally, but it used S-100 expansion cards, and with a set of 8" disk drives (as shown in the movie), it probably ran some version of CP/M. According to oldcomputers.com, it sold in 1977 for $599 as a kit or for $931 as an assembled system.

That price was just for a core machine.
The machine in the movie was easily over $2500. (17" monitor, keyboard, RAM, voice synthesizer, dual 8" disk drives, printer, modem, etc...)

[Keatah]

I actually tried the grade-changing thing.

[Keatah]

Also note that there was an Epson MX-80 FrictionFeed printer. And they had 1200 baud modem connected to that acoustic coupler. 1200 baud and acoustic couplers never really worked well.