Commodore 64 on Mr Robot last night....

[eccofonic]

Anybody here watch Mr. Robot? Great show and it usually gets it's details right, but...

 

During the surreal scene with Angela in the fish tank room, there's a Commodore 64, a 1702 monitor and a 1541 disk drive on a table.

 

When a girl walks in and turns on the C64... I heard the sound of a 3.5" floppy drive doing a seek test, the sound of the 3.5" drive being checked for a boot disk, and then a noisy old hard drive spinning up after the girl puts a disk in the 1541... making noise for the rest of the sequence.

 

The Commodore 64 doesn't make these kinds of noises! LOL

[+SpiceWare]

Was watching DC's Legends of Tomorrow and they had a C= 64 in 1975. Screen was faked, to much detail for the 64 to generate. Image from here. I've also blogged about one on That '70s Show.

 

[RobertB]

Was watching DC's Legends of Tomorrow and they had a C= 64 in 1975. Screen was faked, to much detail for the 64 to generate.

Whoa! Too early for a C64. However, if they had an 80-column add-on like the Batteries Included BI-80, or a software solution like Screen-80, they could possibly do it.

 

Writing from Sydney, Australia,

Robert Bernardo

Fresno Commodore User Group

http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

[carlsson]

Software generated 80 columns surely would've had thick borders around the screen, unless of course the monitor lets you adjust height, width and positioning so you can zoom in on the text part. I think the monitor also looks far too new for being 1975, but most probably the scenographer didn't think many people would notice.

[+SpiceWare]

Software generated 80 columns surely would've had thick borders around the screen, unless of course the monitor lets you adjust height, width and positioning so you can zoom in on the text part. I think the monitor also looks far too new for being 1975, but most probably the scenographer didn't think many people would notice.

That site I linked to says it's an 1802 which was marketed for the 64c (the redesigned 64 that looks like the 128) from 1986. I wasn't familiar with the 1802, but it appears to be the third variation on this page.

[carlsson]

Well, at least the computer and the monitor belong together. That might've been for practical purposes, if they were lended/rented from the same place.

[danny_galaga]

Guys, it's a fantasy show! They are going to use whatever has the right look. I mean, if you look at X-Men, they have a plane that on the outside looks like an SR-71, but then you see a whole bunch of them sitting inside it like it's a transporter. The average person isn't going to be worried about that sort of detail though. Someone else in another hobby may look at that same scene and see not a discrepancy with the computer, but maybe they huff about the picture frame moulding isn't right because that style didn't come out until 1989...

[MarkO]

Guys, it's a fantasy show! They are going to use whatever has the right look. I mean, if you look at X-Men, they have a plane that on the outside looks like an SR-71, but then you see a whole bunch of them sitting inside it like it's a transporter. The average person isn't going to be worried about that sort of detail though. Someone else in another hobby may look at that same scene and see not a discrepancy with the computer, but maybe they huff about the picture frame moulding isn't right because that style didn't come out until 1989...

 

If you mention T.A.R.D.I.S. Technology, then Of Course the Inside is Bigger than the Outside....

 

 

We just want to have "reasonable" Suspension of Disbelief....

 

MarkO

[danny_galaga]

Well, like I say, it will be reasonable suspension of disbelief for MOST people, in exactly the same way that if they happened to get the picture frame wrong in the background, it will still be reasonable suspension of disbelief for most people...