Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
Bill Gates and Paul Allen develop software for the MITS Altair using a PDP-8/E.
DEC PDP-8/E
The 8E was the most popular of Digital Equipments highly successful PDP8 minicomputer. Until the rise of the microcomputer in the late 1970s, the PDP 8 was the world's best selling computer.
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•Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) •Three Days of the Condor (1975) •The Tower (1985)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
The 8 appears at the beginning of the film in Jospeh's office where it appears to be scanning and processing text documents.
Text processing is reasonable enough, but the scanner (and presumably OCR) are a little far fetched.
The Tower (1985)
The PDP-8 is the building's main computer system.
The PDP-8 tries to wrest control of the building from Lola by asserting a fail-safe condition, but Lola overrides this.
