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Movies with electronics related storyline
mendip_discovery:
I remember one from when we first got Sky (16 channels)
1993 - The Tower
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108371/
--- Quote ---"A man working at an ultramodern corporate building finds himself and a colleague trapped inside with a homicidal security system hell-bent on killing them both after perceiving them as a "threat"."
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The full Film can be found here,
schmitt trigger:
There is a Cold War thriller, which for the life of me I can’t remember the name…. Anyways, about a radar station north of the Arctic Circle, probably the DEW line, in the dead of the winter.
Classic plot: a bad guy, presumably a Soviet operative, thrashes the station, including the only short wave radio. Left several dead operators but our hero somehow survives.
Our hero finds a damaged resistor on the radio, and proceeded to fix it with the graphite from a #2 pencil.
BrianHG:
--- Quote from: mendip_discovery on July 07, 2023, 07:36:42 pm ---I remember one from when we first got Sky (16 channels)
1993 - The Tower
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108371/
--- Quote ---"A man working at an ultramodern corporate building finds himself and a colleague trapped inside with a homicidal security system hell-bent on killing them both after perceiving them as a "threat"."
--- End quote ---
The full Film can be found here,
--- End quote ---
@20:35 in the video, he is working on an open Amiga 1000 computer. LOL, 1993, they should have been old and long gone. @21:35, the painted the rear plastic bezel black. :(
Electro Fan:
Halt and Catch Fire
:-+ :-+
https://youtu.be/_CtzaSzO2cE
You’ll probably know if it’s for you after watching Episode 1.
Then get ready for about 39 more.
I wanted a rude username:
--- Quote from: mendip_discovery on July 07, 2023, 07:36:42 pm ---1993 - The Tower
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108371/
--- Quote ---"A man working at an ultramodern corporate building finds himself and a colleague trapped inside with a homicidal security system hell-bent on killing them both after perceiving them as a "threat"."
--- End quote ---
--- End quote ---
There was a 1986 MacGyver episode with this theme: The Human Factor. With Wargames and similar, homicidal AIs were very much in the Zeitgeist.
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