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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.