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2017-07-02 23:40 Quad Pros

Battleship, Elles, The Campaign and Gone all feature Apple Macbook Pros (with an iMac also sneaking into Elles).

2017-06-28 00:20 Martian Toughbook

The Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 makes numerous appearances in the 2015 film The Martian.

2017-06-12 21:32 Two laptops and a PC

Two laptops and a desktop PC make their first appearance on Starring the Computer. A Compaq Deskpro PD1005 appears in The Centrifuge Brain Project, there a Dell Precision M3800 in addition to a IBM PC XT in Get Hard, and The Lincoln Lawyer has the first appearance of a Lenovo Thinkpad W500 (in addition to a Apple Macbook Pro).

2017-06-03 18:34 Pet Automata

Commodore PETs place a rather unlikely role in Automata as something resembling a fax machine.

2017-05-27 23:15 Inspect an Amiga 1500

The Commodore Amiga 1500 makes its first appearance on Starring the Computer with its role in Deadly Slumber the first episode of season seven of Inspector Morse.

2017-05-21 00:06 A Trio of iMacs

There is an iMac G3 or an iMac G4 in Good Boy!, Wasabi and the My Family episode Age of Romance.

2017-05-13 00:31 A Sackful of SAGE

All of the follow features have SAGE (IBM AN/FSQ-7) panels in them: Open Fire (which also has IBM PS/2s), Bizaardvark - Season 1, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Bionic Woman The Vega Influence and Kill Oscar, Logan's Run "Man Out of Time", The Manitou, The Apocalypse and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (which also has Burroughs B205 tape drives, an Apple iMac G3 and an Apple Power Mac G4 Cube).

2017-05-06 01:49 Sony Pixels

Pixels has a couple of Sony Starring-the-Computer debutantes, a VAIO Duo 13 and a Sony VAIO Tap 21, as well as brief glimpse of an old Commodore 64 and Commodore 64C.

2017-05-01 23:00 Apple Zone

Drop Zone is awash with Apple computers: a Macintosh, a Powerbook Duo, a Quadra 650 and a Quadra 800. There's also a Compaq Contura 4/25cx.

2017-04-22 12:56 90s Laptop Double Debut

Two early 90s laptops make their first appearance on Starring the Computer: a Toshiba T1000LE in an episode of Spatz and a Compaq LTE 286 in an episode of Frasier.

2017-04-14 14:37 Dutch Creator Guy

Dutch has a Zenith Supersport, Creator has a DEC Professional 300 and Guy X has a Commodore PET 2001.

2017-04-09 22:49 Two IIs

There are two more appearances for the Apple II in Never Forget and 3-2-1 Contact.

2017-04-04 23:56 The Arrival of an AT&T

The Arrival offers Starring the Computer its first AT&T Safari 3151.

2017-03-31 23:48 A Romantic IBM

A Little Romance has a small but significant appearance for a IBM System/360 model 91.

2017-03-24 22:34 MITS for CHiPs

The Day of the Robot episode from the sixth season of CHiPs has a large role for a Commodore 64 as part of the titular robot, but also has shots of a MITS Altair 8800.

2017-03-20 00:17 Chuck a Tandy in the Swamp

Chuck Versus the First Fight has a important role for a Tandy TRS-80 Model 4 and Swamp Thing has a Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer and several Tandy TRS-80 Model IIIs.