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Subject: Re: Rumour I heard the other day,,,
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Date: 25 Jan 91 00:26:00 GMT
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> 
> On a related topics: Vic-20's in the movies!!
> 
> In at least two movies where they needed computer keyboards to look technical
> and impressive, I've seen Vic-20's.  The first was Airplane II, where there
> are three or four of them lined up with a bank of ground personnell types.  The
> second was in The Philadelphia Experiment, where there was this big huge
> workstation screen with a Vic-20 keyboard below it, in top-secret high-tech
> military base.
> 
> Has anybody seen Vics on the silver screen anywhere else?
> 
> (If anyone remembers the TV show "Manimal," which ran about 6 episodes, I
> seem to remember in the Pilot episode that the hero had a C64 in his house
> somewhere.)
> 

I remember seeing a VIC as part of the 'military' equipment in the movie
	'The Lost Caverns' (I think that's the title,BTW). A bunch of American
	Defence types where following Central American rebels into a deep
	& mysterious cave and stumble across a lost civilisation. They just
	used the keyboard in this case.

 Also, the video display on WOPR in 'War Games' had a very susipisous
	character font and screen size,,,

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            Chris "Polar" Baird
Impoverished BSc Undergrad @ Newcastle Uni (OZ!)
         LNCJB@cc.newcastle.edu.au