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2008-12-27 15:34 Big Fat Update 4

I've been saving these up, and it's Christmas... Eve of Destruction, Beverly Hills Cop 3, Independence Day, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, That's So Raven, Return to the Batcave, Austin Powers in Goldmember, Soap, Invasion of the Bee Girls, Virus, Damnation Alley, and The Towering Inferno all feature panels from the IBM AN/FSQ-7 (as well as the odd Burroughs B205 tape drive.

2008-12-08 23:27 Back to the Mac

Back to the Future Part II has an Apple Mac in the window of an antiques shop in 2015. Never mind a Mac - the iMac will be an antique in 2015!

2008-12-06 10:31 Le Gendarme et les gendarmettes

Another foreign language film for Starring-the-Computer: the French film Le Gendarme et les gendarmettes features a French computer - the Bull Questar M.

2008-12-02 22:33 Bird on a Red Dwarf

Bird on a Wire provides Starring-the-Computer with its first Mac II, and there's another Commodore 64 appearance in an episode of Red Dwarf.

2008-11-24 23:05 Go Commodore!

Continuing a good run for Commodore, there's a role for a C64 in the TV mini-series Nightmares and Dreamscapes (based on a book of Stephen King short stories).

2008-11-21 21:00 Another VIC-20

Following last week's addition of What Waits Below, VIC-20s also appear in Airplane II.

2008-11-14 21:58 What Waits Below

There are some nice shots of a Commodore VIC-20 in the British science-fiction adventure What Waits Below.

2008-11-13 17:53 You've Got Mail

Having watched it absolutely ages ago, I've finally found time to add You've Got Mail to the database with its Apple and IBM laptops playing important roles.

2008-10-31 21:11 Friday the 13th on October the 31st

Rather appropriately for Halloween, I suppose, I've just added Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter to the database as it includes a brief appearance from a TRS-80 Color Computer.

2008-10-23 19:14 A View IIc a Kill

There's an Apple IIc in the Bond film A View to a Kill.

2008-10-14 23:11 The Peacemaker

The Peacemaker has large numbers of SGI machines: Indys all over the place and, a Starring-the-Computer first, a few Indigo2s as well. There's also a little DEC notebook in there too.

2008-10-13 23:17 Time Traveling B205

The 1964 B-movie The Time Travelers (I want to type Travellers, but it is Travelers) has lots of lovely shots of the Burroughs B205 standing in as the time machine.

2008-10-06 13:44 Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Ferris Bueller's Day Off includes an IBM PC XT.

2008-10-02 21:15 Hogan's Heroes

The Burroughs B205 make the most fleeting of appearances in a Hogan's Heroes episode.

2008-09-25 14:00 The Machattan Project

These titles keep getting sillier! The Manhattan Project has minor roles for an Apple Mac and a, Starring-the-Computer newcomer, DEC PDP-11/40.

2008-09-24 14:00 Get Smart, Amiga!

Get Smart, Again! adds the first Commodore Amiga 1000 to the Starring-the-Computer database, along with an IBM AN/FSQ-7. We've had a recent glut of the IBMs, not through any design on my part, but simply because of the order the rental company has sent the DVDs to me. It maybe because I added them all to the rental list at once after discovering Mike Lowen's excellent web page The AN/FSQ-7 on TV and in the Movies. As you can see from that page, we still have a fair few AN/FSQ-7 appearances to go!