WarGames tape

[John A. Dundas III]

At 11:21 AM -0500 4/18/05, Keys wrote:
>While working the flea market this weekend I picked a VHS copy 
>WarGames and watched it Sunday afternoon.  It was strange to watch 
>the many shots of mainframes that were in the movie but I notice 
>none seem to be in air condition rooms?  One looks like a 360 or 370 
>system and another shot may be a minicomputer with all the disk/tape 
>drives and printers.

It's been a long time since I've watched that movie so my memory is 
hazy.  However I can say that some of the scenes were shot in the CSU 
Long Beach computer center while (or just after) I was there.  At the 
time there was a CDC (could have been a 3150 or 6600, I no longer 
remember) and a PDP-11/70.  As I recall, the CDC was visible in 
several shots; I don't recall the /70 being shown.  I can assure you, 
the machines were indeed air conditioned.

There was another shot (or several) of a "technician"; don't remember 
the character's name.  This was shot just outside the machine room in 
what was at the time an analyst cubicle area.  (Our actual technician 
room was not used; it was pretty small.)

John