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From: leeper@ahutb.UUCP (m.r.leeper)
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Subject: Re: The Forbin Project
Message-ID: <565@ahutb.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Mar-85 18:17:44 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 18 18:17:44 1985
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 >>"Glad that somebody finally mentioned "Colossus, the Forbin
 >>Project." This film, which was released originally as just "The
 >>Forbin Project" didn't do well in the theaters, primarily
 >>because the movie going public couldn't seem to relate to
 >>computers in 1971 (when the movie was made) like they would
 >>now.  The movie was relatively low-key, without any
 >>shoot-'em-ups or other flashy gimmicks and was received well by
 >>everybody I knew who knew anything about computers."
 >
 >Well ...  almost everybody.  I saw it with a group of
 >college frosh hackers.  When we saw the Colossus machine
 >room, the "willing suspension of disbelief" was dissolved in
 >a pool of laughter.  The console for Colossus was made up of
 >several (identical) front panels from IBM 1620's.
 >

Reportedly that is the Universal Studios payroll computer.

				Mark Leeper
				...ihnp4!ahutb!leeper