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From: mentat@auscso.UUCP (Robert Dorsett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Starring Macs (was Re: Addison's MacII)
Message-ID: <452@auscso.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 10-Oct-87 12:46:16 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 10 12:46:16 1987
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In article <4669@oberon.USC.EDU> humphrey@skat.usc.edu (Steve Humphrey) writes:
>In the movie "The Big Easy", a mac is shown on the district attorney's
>desk at one point.  Problem:  no cables coming out of the back of it.

And no external disk drive.  And I think it was an "old" Mac, i.e., a 512
or 128.  Set designers seem to like the machine, though.  It's small, and 
shows how "in" the stars are...:-)  

Once, long ago, didn't they have EPSONS in the office? I also seem to remember 
an episode where the security office somewhere had a row of five Macs acting 
as MONITORS.  Each one had black electrical tape across the disk drive and 
logo... :-)

And now the "value" part of the message: the few pictures I have seen of Macs
turned on have been on the news.  They are always in the background, and in-
variably FLICKER like mad.  I know people on this newsgroup have often written 
that it's possible to aim a camera at the screen and get a good picture.  Can
someone comment on the other type of "background" filming? 




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Robert Dorsett                  {allegra,seismo}!sally!ut-ngp!walt!mentat
University of Texas at Austin	{allegra, seismo}!sally!ut-ngp!auscso!mentat