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2008-11-13 17:53 You've Got Mail

Having watched it absolutely ages ago, I've finally found time to add You've Got Mail to the database with its Apple and IBM laptops playing important roles.

2008-10-31 21:11 Friday the 13th on October the 31st

Rather appropriately for Halloween, I suppose, I've just added Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter to the database as it includes a brief appearance from a TRS-80 Color Computer.

2008-10-23 19:14 A View IIc a Kill

There's an Apple IIc in the Bond film A View to a Kill.

2008-10-14 23:11 The Peacemaker

The Peacemaker has large numbers of SGI machines: Indys all over the place and, a Starring-the-Computer first, a few Indigo2s as well. There's also a little DEC notebook in there too.

2008-10-13 23:17 Time Traveling B205

The 1964 B-movie The Time Travelers (I want to type Travellers, but it is Travelers) has lots of lovely shots of the Burroughs B205 standing in as the time machine.

2008-10-06 13:44 Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Ferris Bueller's Day Off includes an IBM PC XT.

2008-10-02 21:15 Hogan's Heroes

The Burroughs B205 make the most fleeting of appearances in a Hogan's Heroes episode.

2008-09-25 14:00 The Machattan Project

These titles keep getting sillier! The Manhattan Project has minor roles for an Apple Mac and a, Starring-the-Computer newcomer, DEC PDP-11/40.

2008-09-24 14:00 Get Smart, Amiga!

Get Smart, Again! adds the first Commodore Amiga 1000 to the Starring-the-Computer database, along with an IBM AN/FSQ-7. We've had a recent glut of the IBMs, not through any design on my part, but simply because of the order the rental company has sent the DVDs to me. It maybe because I added them all to the rental list at once after discovering Mike Lowen's excellent web page The AN/FSQ-7 on TV and in the Movies. As you can see from that page, we still have a fair few AN/FSQ-7 appearances to go!

2008-09-20 11:58 Stand By XT

An IBM PC XT makes a brief appearance in the 1986 film Stand By Me.

2008-09-19 20:55 23 Nichts ist so wie es scheint

23 is Starring-the-Computer's first foreign language film, but it was certainly worth bearing with the subtitles. As well being a very good "computery" movie, it also adds loads of new computers to the database: Commodore's 64C and SX64 as well as an Atari ST and a very chunky Ericsson Portable PC. A veritable smorgasbord of 1980s computing!

2008-09-16 14:00 Tom Selleck reaches his Zenith

Well, he might well have reached his nadir, actually, but nonetheless Tom Selleck stars in Her Alibi along with a Zenith Supersport laptop. Oh, and another SAGE appearance, this time in Spaceballs.

2008-09-09 21:58 The Tandy Kid

The Heavenly Kid has very minor roles for two TRS-80 computers: a Model 4 and a Color Computer.

2008-09-09 13:59 Big Fat Update 3

Dodgeball, Tomb Raider, Accepted, Electric Dreams and an episode of Knight Rider have all been added to the database. Three computers make their first Starring-the-Computer appearance: the Apple Powerbook G4, the Tandy MC-10 and (almost unbelievable that it's taken this long to find one) a Commodore 64.

2008-09-07 16:23 Another SAGE pair

Another couple of appearances of the IBM AN/FSQ-7: Airplane! and The Swarm (which also features another Starring-the-Computer veteran the Burroughs B205 tape drive.)

2008-08-28 18:07 A SAGE pair

The IBM AN/FSQ-7 (SAGE) appears in both sci-fi prequel Conquest of the Planet of the Apes and sixties spy-comedy The President's Analyst.