Re: Favorite electronics movies
Tim Shoppa wrote:
PaulCsouls wrote:
The best electronics bit in Star Trek is in the one with the evil
alternate universe (Spock with the beard). They need to take some
files from the computer and they put it on an orange 3.5" floppy disk.
Where did the prop department get one of those in 1967? They were
using punch cards back then.
My favorite Trek electronics: The City on the Edge of Forever, where
Spock (back in 1930's era US) constructs a "crude mnemonic memory
device" using "stone knives and bearskins" (actually a bunch of octal
tubes on metal chassis and breadboards, and a Jacob's Ladder on the end
too). I think this is also the episode where he and Kirk are working as
janitors, and Spock makes some comment about only needing a cubic foot
of platinum to complete his device :-)
I'd like to see someone interface to a USB port using 1930s tech.
Would it be possible?
Otherwise, like you note, the electronics tends to be random colored
and shaped plastic blocks.
Electronics is getting more like that every day.
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