News

2008-08-19 12:05 Debbie and Damon

Damon and Debbie, despite being an obscure soap spinoff, is to me an exciting addition to the site. It features new computers - a Toshiba HX-10 and a Sun 3/50 (I don't believe it's taken this long to get a Sun machine in the database), and well a few Beebs, but the main point of interest is that it takes place at my place of work - the Computer Science Department at the University of York. Also, it's just possible that I might own that particular Sun 3/50 (or its motherboard, at least). Thanks to an anonymous colleague for rescuing this from a mouldy betamax tape!

2008-07-25 22:18 Buckaroo Banzai

It was on my list for an Apple II, which wasn't visible at all, but Buckaroo Banzai does have a DEC Rainbow and another machine that looks like an S-100 system. I couldn't identify it. Can you?

2008-07-23 22:56 First success of the help page!

A big thanks to Velibor who spotted the TRS-80 from The Royal Tenenbaums on the help page.

2008-07-23 13:42 Dr. Goldfoot and the Burroughs Machine

The Burroughs B205 (or its tape drive, at least) appears in Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, making it joint equal with the Commodore PET as the mostly popular computer on Starring-the-Computer!

2008-07-21 22:31 Zoolander

An iMac plays a moderately important role in the film Zoolander. Not my kind of film at all, but I suppose it provides Starring-the-Computer with its first "Z" entry...

2008-07-18 23:38 Big Fat Update 2

xXx, Lost in Space, Sliders and Alien vs Predator have all been added to the database. New machines: a Motorola Accompli and a PDP-11/03. That's certainly helped clear the backlog that was building up!

2008-07-18 00:11 Applenapping

Ransom proves to be another coup for Apple's marketing department. At least this time as well as the inevitable dull PowerBook, there's a more interesting Messagepad.

2008-07-16 23:40 Help!

I've added a new help section to the website, where you can help me improve starringthecomputer.com. Please have a look and get in touch if you have any relevant information.

2008-07-14 12:43 Elliott 903

The 1974 film Phase IV features the first, and quite probably only, appearance of an Elliott Automation computer (the 903) in a movie.

2008-07-09 08:17 Differential Analyser vs the Flying Saucers

The classic cold-war sci-fi flick Earth vs the Flying Saucers features some nice shots of the GE Differential Analyser doing impossible things.

2008-06-30 22:44 Fantastic Voyage

A Fantastic Voyage into the world of 1950s computers is now logged in the database with appearances by a Burroughs B205 and an IBM AN/FSQ-7 (SAGE).

2008-06-13 07:50 Indy Maguire

The Toshiba Satellite actually plays a fairly important role in the plot of Jerry Maguire, but I was watching it for the SGI Indys.

2008-06-11 08:58 The Saint

The Saint features more Apple laptops (yawn), and a more interesting Nokia Communicator.

2008-06-11 08:31 Naploleon Dynamite

The TRS-80 Model 4 make its first appearance on Starring-the-Computer (albeit a very fleeting one) in the film Napoleon Dynamite.

2008-05-30 07:35 Legally iBlonde

Yet more Apple product placement is in evidence in Legally Blonde: a Clamshell iBook.

2008-05-14 07:11 Palm Breach

Breach, the true story of American FBI agent Robert Hanssen who spied for the Soviet government, features the historically accurate Palm III.