differential analyzer in EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS

[Ethan Dicks]

On 6/30/05, Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com> wrote:
> About 1 hr in, a "computer" is used to analyze flying saucer
> messages.  It's a Bush-style (no not our dimwit president, the MIT
> guy) diff analyzer! Operating! With plotter!

With a *bogus* plotter - I don't think a real differential analyzer
writes its output in cursive English.  ;-)   It's an early appearance
of "The Hollywood Operating System".
 
> TiVo'd it. 1956 Harryhausen movie. Haven't seen it since I was 12!

Watched that just tonight.  We must have been on the same channel.

-ethan