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2009-08-22 14:04 Airwolf Season 2

A number of computers appear in season 2 of Airwolf. There are Commodore PETs in Firestorm and Condemned, and Moffett's Ghost has a Commodore 64 and two Starring-the-Computer debuts: a Compaq Portable and a Dynalogic Hyperion.

2009-08-20 23:45 AT Last...

An episode of Sledge Hammer! adds the first IBM PC AT to the database, along with another Amiga 1000, and an episode of Bones has a role for Starring-the-Computer's first Amiga 1200 and an IBM PC XT. Sorry for the slow updates recently... Other commitments are likely to keep the updates at a trickle for the next few weeks.

2009-08-06 08:52 Spot the Commodore

My recent discovery of the excellent Spot the Commodore article on Richard Lagendijk's Commodore Info Page has allowed me to add a little fleet of Commodores to the site. Crash and Burn, Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman, The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew, The Substitute, Me Myself I, The Gods Must Be Crazy II and episodes of ALF and the Swedish kids TV show Ebba och Didrik all exhibit Commodore computers. These include a Plus/4 and a C128 (both Starring-the-Computer newcomers), a PET, two A500s and A1000s and four A2000s.

2009-07-31 23:08 Where the Apple IIs Roam

Where the Buffalo Roam is, at 1980, the earliest film I've come across so far to feature an Apple II computer.

2009-07-30 23:49 Look Around Yog

The promising-sounding Computers episode from season 2 of Look Around You has a Commodore PET and Starring-the-Computer's first HP 64000. Also, the very first episode of Being Erica has a brief role for a Commodore 64.

2009-07-27 23:03 Only Fools and Amstrads

In the first episode of series 6 of Only Fools and Horses, Rodney uses an Amstrad CPC 6128 whilst studying for a computer diploma.

2009-07-22 22:38 Chuck

The very first episode of Chuck has a deliciously unbelievable appearance for an Apple Macintosh Classic as well as an OQO handheld and an Apple Power Mac G5. All three of these machines are making their Starring-the-Computer debut.

2009-07-21 22:57 Pump Up the PS/2

A number of IBM PS/2s appear in the 1990 film Pump Up the Volume.

2009-07-17 23:43 DecMate II

Another computer makes its debut on Starring-the-Computer. This time, it's a Digital DecMate II making an appearance in the comedy horror House.

2009-07-16 23:18 Pandora's Clock

Yet more Apples, this time in Pandora's Clock. We'll forgive it though because it features an Apple Newton Messagepad in addition to the normal dull Macbook.

2009-07-13 22:38 Slap Her Pomme

In another Apple whitewash, Slap Her... She's French offers an iBook, several iMacs and our first Power Macintosh G3.

2009-07-11 15:52 Season Three's an IT Crowd

The IT Crowd, season 3, offers a wide range of Starring-the-Computer goodness including reappearances for the Commodore Pet and Sinclair ZX81 and a range of firsts for the database: a MITS Altair 8800, an Amstrad CPC 464, an Oric Atmos, and, in the fifth episode, an Asus EEE PC.

2009-07-06 22:47 The 1301 Strikes Again

Another appearance of the ICT 1301 has been added to the database, this time in The Pink Panther Strikes Again.

2009-06-30 22:47 More Apples

The Glass House has a fair role for an Apple iBook. It's all Apples at the moment!

2009-06-29 08:48 Clockstoppers

Clockstoppers is a wall-to-wall Mac-fest including an iBook, iMac, Powerbook and, a Starring-the-Computer first, a Power Mac G4.

2009-06-20 09:41 CDC Remote Calculator

Well, I've been vacillating over this one for some time. I've come across a number of films that have a CDC remote calculator in them and, up until now, I'd not put them on the site. This beast was essentially a very specialised terminal. It had no processor of its own but connected to the CDC 6600 to make that machine's computing power easily available to scientists and mathematicians. I don't normally include terminals, but this is such a specialised piece of kit that was only ever used with the 6600 so I've decided to include them, but counting them as 6600 appearances. The films in question are Soylent Green, Westworld, and Marooned.