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It had a lot to do with my interest in computers as well. Acoustic couplers, war dialing, and basic cracking and phreaking were all _so_ cool in that movie, not
by kadoban 3y ago
It had a lot to do with my interest in computers as well. Acoustic couplers, war dialing, and basic cracking and phreaking were all _so_ cool in that movie, not to mention everything in and near the war room stuff.
- harel 3y agoand lest we forget that with all that nerdery and geekery, he still got the girl and saved the entire planet.
- wkat4242 3y agoThe home computer (imsai 8080) wasn't all that unrealistic either. There's another story floating around here about the people that provided it. One thing that was unrealistic was that acoustic couplers couldn't do autodial. Of course the WOPR (lol) and the big screens were. Computers of those days did indeed have large rows of flashing LEDs (or on the earliest models, regular bulbs) but they weren't just a huge strip for show. They were all marked with the values each bit of registers etc. They also didn't hide the most important info (eg countdown to the end of the world) in an LCD display hidden somewhere it couldn't be seen. But Hollywood just took the flashing lights part the way they now think hackers sit in the dark with hoodies on and the screen projecting green readable text on their faces.
- Mountain_Skies 3y agoWonder if the Altair and its clones were capable of producing the waveforms for DTMF signals. Still would need some minor hacking to get that signal into the phone line but I'm confident that David could do it.
- titzer 3y agoI frickin love computers in movies that have tons of Blinkenlights.
- wkat4242 3y agoMe too but a bit more realism and a bit less cringe please :)