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2021-02-14 11:39 More Macs

Free Willy has a brief shot of a Macintosh, 101 Dalmatians has a role for a Macintosh Quadra 630, and Kill Your Friends has a Powerbook G3 along with a Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh. Final Destination 3 has a tiny glimpse of a Power Mac G5 and Little Fockers has a iMac G4 and a Macbook Pro.

2021-01-30 14:48 Crowning Computers

Season 4 of "The Crown" features a number of machines. Fairytale and Favourites have shots of a Commodore PET, 48:1 has a Commodore CBM-II, and Avalanche features the IBM PS/2 Model 30.

2021-01-16 16:39 A Deskpro XE and more laptops

Ri¢hie Ri¢h gives Starring the Computer its first Compaq Deskpro XE along with a Compaq Contura. Senseless also has a Compaq Contura along with a Toshiba Satellite Pro 400 and a Commodore 64. And more laptops - the Apple Powerbook 5300 in Anaconda, the Panasonic Toughbook in All Is Lost and an Apple Macbook Pro in Sinister.

2021-01-02 16:02 A Pair of Rugged Ultra-portables

We see in the new year with a pair of rugged ultra-portables making their Starring-the-Computer debut. RED 2 has the Panasonic Toughbook CF-U1, and San Andreas has the DAP 8640 (along with the familiar Apple Macbook Pro).

2020-12-24 15:10 Festive Apples

Here are a load more Apple appearances. The Vanishing has the Macintosh LC, Man Trouble has the Macintosh IIsi and the Macintosh SE, Prêt-à-Porter has the Powerbook 180, The Rules of Attraction the iBook G3, and Fled the Powerbook Duo. Sabrina has a prototype of the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh and the "Friends" episode The One with the Worst Best Man Ever also as a TAM along with a Apple Powerbook Duo. Finally, 4:44 Last Day on Earth has the Apple Macbook Pro.

2020-12-14 00:40 Some Amstrads

The A High Profile episode of "Hetty Wainthropp Investigates" has a small role for an Amstrad PCW 9512. And the "Press Gang" episode The Last Word: Part 2 sees the Amstrad PC 2086 making its debut, along with a PCW 9512 and an Apple Macintosh.

2020-12-06 11:50 Compute like Flint!

The 1960s spoof spy movies Our Man Flint and In Like Flint both feature computers including the Burroughs B205 and B220 along with the ubiquitous IBM AN/FSQ-7.

2020-11-29 18:11 The Art of Winbook

The Art of War features a couple of Starring-the-Computer debutantes: the Winbook XL and the NEC Versa LX, along with the more familiar Casio Cassiopeia E-100.

2020-11-22 10:48 SE and SE

There are two appearances of the Apple Macintosh SE in 'Til There Was You and Election (which also features the Power Macintosh 5000).

2020-11-08 15:01 A Flotilla of Commodores

There are Commodore PET 2001s and later PETs in episodes of Devs and Supertrain as well as the movies Trudeau and Eliminate: Archie Cookson (which also features an IBM PS/2 Model 30/55). Müllers Büro as a role for a Commodore 64. "My Secret Identity" has a Commodore Amiga 500 in its first episode and an Amiga 2000 in its second. Finally, The Real McCoy has an Commodore Amiga 1000, along with an IBM PS/2 Model 50/70 and, making its Starring-the-Computer debut, an NEC Ultralite 286F.

2020-11-01 11:37 Many mainframes and a smattering of supercomputers

Let's start with the debutantes. A Thinking Machines CM-1 makes an appearance in The Fly II (along with an IBM System/370), Hangar 18 has a first appearance for the GE 210 (along with the GE 635), and the IBM 1130 make its first appearance in The Naked Bunyip (along with the System/360). The IBM System/360 also appears in the "Mad Men" episode The Monolith and the German film Die Ente klingelt um halb acht. All the Troubles of the World has the Honeywell 6000 and The Billion Dollar Bubble has the Sperry UNIVAC 1110. Then there is the usual assortment of Burroughs B205 and IBM AN/FSQ-7 appearances in The Man With My Face, Fail Safe, Time Travelers, the "Cannon" episode The Rip Off and "The Land of the Giants" episode Brainwash (which also has shots of the Burroughs B220 and IBM 1620).

2020-10-26 14:26 An eMaculate Collection

The Apple eMac makes its Starring-the-Computer debut in Mean Girls, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits and Freaky Friday. The latter also feature the Apple iMac G3, iMac G4 and Powerbook G4 along with another debutante - the Compaq iPAQ 3850.

2020-10-21 15:13 Mostly PCs

The "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show" episode Honey, You've Got Nine Lives has a number of IBM Aptiva Ss. Dreams of a Life has a IBM PC XT and IBM PS/2 Model 30/55. There are more PS/2s in the "Murphy Brown" episode The Memo That Got Away and the "Tales from the Crypt" episode None But the Lonely Heart. Death Spa has a few shots of the AT&T PC 6300, and panels from the Honeywell 6000. And then a series of machines make their Starring-the-Computer debut: there is the Tandy 1000 EX in Def by Temptation and the Lenovo IdeaCentre A310 and ThinkPad X201t in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, along with the shots of the ubiquitous Burroughs B205 tape drive.

2020-10-11 18:02 Mostly laptops

Little Love has an Apple Powerbook G4, Home Alone 3 has a Toshiba T4600C and the second episode of Devs has an Alienware R5. Gleaming the Cube has a IBM 5140 and the only non-portable machine in this update, the Epson Equity making its debut appearance. Then there are three more laptops making their debut appearance: the Samsung VM8000 in the very first episode of Rosemary & Thyme, the Sony Vaio E in Cyberbully, and the Data General WALKABOUT/SX in The Beverly Hillbillies.

2020-10-04 00:18 G3 or not G3?

In this case, very much G3! All of the follow include the Apple iMac G3: The "Rosemary & Thyme" episode The Memory of Water, Fast Food Nation, the "Friends" episode The One Where Rosita Dies, Between Two Ferns: The Movie, Derailed, It Runs in the Family, Scream 3, The Big Short and Mean Girls (which also has a debut appearance for the NEC Z1).

2020-09-20 17:41 Godzilla 2000

Godzilla 2000 has quite a collection of appearances including Apple iMac G3s, a Apple Power Macintosh G3, a Sony Vaio C1, SGI Indys and, making its Starring-the-Computer debut, the Compaq Presario 5100.