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The “Roman Holiday” teleprinter code

• YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
  More stories like that please!
  • fortran77 5y ago
    John Graham-Cumming solves a lot of Hollywood computer mysteries. See his "Behind The Screens" YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRnnjoiSV-U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRnnjoiSV-U and the story of the COBOL code in "Terminator" https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-my-cobol-code-ended-up-original-terminator-movie-robert-swirsky/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-my-cobol-code-ended-up-or...
    • Animats 5y ago
      There's a whole web site for that.[1] [1] http://www.starringthecomputer.com/ http://www.starringthecomputer.com/
      • jgrahamc 5y ago
        That’s a site that identifies computers and not the code. For code see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MovieCode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MovieCode or the YouTube channel linked above.
  • Turing_Machine 5y ago
    If I remember right, the original Robocop was apparently running MS-DOS. :-)
    • jgrahamc 5y ago
      I did the new Robocop which was running a library apparently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0KIBf-TLoQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0KIBf-TLoQ But I guess now I have to go back to the original.
• JKCalhoun 5y ago
  I didn't remember the teleprinter — it's a good excuse to put the movie on again. Wonderful film, BTW. I'm surprised how many people have not seen some of the old classics like this one. Also, "The Apartment" with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, just to rattle off another.
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• Animats 5y ago
  Here's a dramatic scene with a typing reperforator.[1] This one is making "chadless" tape, where the holes are only 3/4 punched, so the punched tape can be typed on. What's being typed is about an inch behind what's being punched, because the punching and printing stations are separate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oieGrFPnui4&t=2307s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oieGrFPnui4&t=2307s