denverpilot
Tied Down
Grease pencils for orbit tracking, Philco 2000, etc.
“A strange game. The only winning move, is not to play.”
The producers went to Cray and asked to use one of their computers. Got turned down, hence they invented the art-deco WOPR. Burger King went crazy.Interesting video. Strange that they didn't mention this anywhere:
I guess that came later, though.
The Charles Bronson movie "Raid on Entebbe" used Douglas Aircraft's Telemetry Data Center (where engineers monitored flight tests in real-time) as the raid command center. In 1977 it looked modern and high-tech. By 1988 it looked...tired. It's torn down now, and is in the best shape I've ever seen.The producers went to Cray and asked to use one of their computers. Got turned down, hence they invented the art-deco WOPR. Burger King went crazy.
“A strange game. The only winning move, is not to play.”