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2018-03-25 11:52 Computers from the Darkside

Thanks very much to Dirk who supplied a comprehensive list of computers appearing in the TV series "Tales from the Darkside". Here they all are: Slippage gives the Bull Micral 30 its debut, All a Clone by the Telephone, It All Comes Out in the Wash and Bigalow's Last Smoke all have HP 150s, The Impressionist has a Kaypro II, Lifebomb has a Televideo TS-803, Sorry, Right Number and Payment Overdue both have AT&T PC 6300s, and Red Leader gives the Compaq Deskpro model 1 its debut.

2018-02-18 22:39 Three times II

The Russia House and The Goldbergs (Season 2, Episode 4) both have Apple II, and Lots of Luck completes the trio with a Apple IIc.

2018-01-27 00:05 Killing a ThinkPad

Episode 4 of the first season of Forbrydelsen (The Killing) has a Starring the Computer debut role for a Lenovo ThinkPad Z60m.

2018-01-13 01:08 New Year Big Iron

Caprice offers some tape drives from a Burroughs B205, The second episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a fleeting glimpse of a Honeywell H200, and the Doctor Who story The Green Death has a critical role for an ICT 1301.

2017-12-23 00:07 A Festive Pair

I've added two festive films to the database. Black Christmas has an Apple Powerbook G4 and This Christmas has a couple of Macbook Pros and an iMac.

2017-12-02 16:28 Apples and an Osborne

Cyborg She has an iMac G4. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles has a Powerbook G3, a Clamshell iBook G3 and a iMac G3. 101 Reykjavík also has a iMac G3. Nerve has a iMac G3 and same Macbook Airs and Macbook Pros. And finally, EZ Money has a Powerbook 140 and Starring the Computer's first Osborne 1.

2017-11-25 13:07 Twin Tandys

Double Dragon has a very brief view of a Tandy TRS-80 Model III and a Tandy TRS-80 Model 4 plays a pivotal role in The Highroller.

2017-11-12 17:38 Heathkit Things

Season two of Stranger Things gives the Heathkit/Zenith H89 its first Starring the Computer outing.

2017-10-28 17:30 Altamont Ant-Man

Altamont Now has parts for a Kaypro 10, Commodore 64 and Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, whereas Ant-Man offers Starring the computer its first Dell Latitude E6400 XFR.

2017-10-22 21:32 Archimedes City

The Acorn Archimedes makes regular appearances in Capital City.

2017-10-07 15:50 005 Computers

I have five new appearances to report in James Bond films, including three machines making their Starring-the-Computer debut. Goldeneye has an IBM Thinkpad 701 and Licence to Kill has a Philips Videowriter 250 and the debutante Philips P3230. Also making their first appearance are the HP Jornada 430se in The World Is Not Enough and the Philips P2000C in The Living Daylights.

2017-09-17 13:57 Two times IIe

Batman Returns and King of New York both feature the Apple IIe.

2017-08-22 00:04 Computer Chess

It should be no surprise that Computer Chess has a number of computers in it. There is an IMSAI 8080, a Kaypro 10, a Tandy TRS-80 Model III, a Commodore PET 3000 series, and an Osborne Executive. Also, there are three computers making their first appearance on Starring the Computer: a DEC PDP/11-23, a Cromemco System Three and a Zenith Z-110.

2017-08-13 23:51 They Came to Rob a System/360

They Came to Rob Las Vegas has some pretty nice shots of a IBM System/360 in pivotal role.

2017-07-29 21:44 SuperXL

Two episodes of the first season of the TV show Supergirl have yielded Starring the Computer appearances. Solitude has the ubiquitous IBM AN/FSQ-7 and Red Faced has a debut appearance for an Apple Macintosh XL.

2017-07-23 14:46 Satan's Little iPAQ

Satan's Little Helper has a starring, debut role for a HP iPAQ H1910.