Starring the Computer

Here's a collection of PCs or similar making their first appearance on the site. The "Magnum P.I." episode "The Look" has a look at an Olympia EX 100. "Fletch Lives" has a pair of Wang Professional Computers and "The Fly II" is littered with Wang Office Assistants. "Communion" has a Zenith Z-200 (and an incidental Zenith Supersport laptop). Finally, "Street Smart" has a Corona PC 400.

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#computersinmovies #Wang #CoronaDataSystems #OlympiaEX #retrocomputing

Here are some more Apple appearances. "The Rebound" has an Aluminum iMac and a Macbook. You can just about spot a Power Mac G4 in "Uptown Girls". "A Little Help" has some nice shots of a Clamshell iBook G3 and an iMac G3 and "The Goldbergs" episode "The Beverly Goldberg Cookbook: Part 2" has a Macintosh.

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#computersinmovies #AppleMacintosh #iMacG3 #iBookG3 #Macbook

We don't see Tandy appearances very often any more but here are a couple. "Terror Out of the Sky" has a TRS-80 Model I and "The 'Burbs" gives the Tandy 3000 its debut Starring-the-Computer appearance.

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#computersinmovies #retrocomputing #Tandy #TRS80 #Tandy3000

Here is a small collection of appearances from the Australian soap "Neighbours". In reverse chronological order, episode 1219 has a Commodore Amiga 500, episode 1150 a Commodore 64C, and episode 38 gives the Corona PPC 400 its debut Starring-the-Computer appearance.

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#computersinmovies #retrocomputing #neighbours #commodore #CoronaPPC400

"Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire" has a small collection of somewhat anachronistic appearances. There is a brief glimpse of an Apple IIe and a Commodore PET 2001 appears in the background. Rather strangely for a film set in the USA, there is a fairly important role for an Acorn BBC Micro.

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#computersinmovies #BBCMicro #AppleIIe #CommodorePET

Here are some IBM PS/2 appearances. Model 50s appear in the "Cheers" episode "Cry Hard" and throughout season three of "ALF". There is a Model 30 in "American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt" (which is as poor as it sounds). Finally a Model 55SX makes its debut Starring-the-Computer appearance in the "Stranger Things" episode "Sorcerer".

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#computersinmovies #retrocomputing #IBMPS2

Here is a collection of Commodore appearances. There is a PET 2001 in "The New Avengers" episode "Complex". The Australian kids TV series "Hunter" featured a VIC-20. .Alien: Romulus. has a couple of Commodore 64 keyboards. Finally, the first episode of season 3 of "Derry Girls" has an Amiga 600.

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#computersinmovies #Commodore #retrocomputing

Let's kick of 2026 with some Apple appearances. "Accepted" has a classroom of eMacs, "Irresistible" has a background iMac G3, "The Tailor of Panama" has brief shots of a Clamshell iBook G3 and a Powerbook G3, and the "Married with Children" episode "Assault and Batteries" has a Macintosh Classic.

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#computersinmovies #retrocomputing #eMac #iMacG3 #iBookG3 #PowerbookG3 #MacClassic

Here's a collection of laptops in time for Christmas! "Primal Fear" has two Compaqs: an LTE Elite and Starring-the-Computer debutante Contura 400. "Coneheads" has a Toshiba T1000LE and "In the Mouth of Madness" has a GRiD 2260. Finally a couple more debutantes: a Dell Latitude D630 in a "Cobra Kai" episode and a Panasonic Toughbook CF-Y7 in an episode of "Burn Notice".

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#computersinmovies #retrocomputing #Compaq #Toshiba #GridCompass #Toughbook

We have another appearance for an Acorn Archimedes playing its part in the film "Murder Story". A highlight of the appearance is the upside down mouse usage!

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#computersinmovies #retrocomputing #AcornArchimedes

Here's a number of appearances of Commodore computers from around the world. "Yoksul" has a brief shot of a 64C and "Poke" has a crucial role for a VIC-20 (along with a rare appearance of a Sinclair Spectrum+). Then we have some TV episodes with the "Tatort" episode "Schicki-Micki" having a Commodore 64 and two episodes of "Derrick" with a PET 2001 in "Besuch aus New York" and an Amiga 500 in "Fliegender Vogel".

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#computersinmovies #Commodore #Sinclair #retrocomputing

Intergraph makes its Starring the Computer debut with two appearances. There's a very brief appearance of a Interpro 2020 in "Clear and Present Danger" and "Robocop 3" has some good shots of an InterAct 6000 (along with a Commodore PET 2001 keyboard and some IBM PS/2s.

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#computersinmovies #retrocomputing #intergraph

Here are three Sony Vaio appearances. New Police Story has a role for a Vaio TR and Bag of Bones has a Vaio J and a Vaio F making its debut appearance.

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#computersinmovies #SonyVaio

Here are four features featuring Apple machines powered by G4 processors. "Motherhood" has an iBook G4, "Cake" also has an iBook G4 and a bunch of iMac G4s and "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" is another iBook G4 appearance. Finally, there is a Powerbook G4 in an episode of "The Sopranos".

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#computersinmovies #retrocomputing #iBookG4 #iMacG4 #PowerbookG4

All of these feature some sort of Macintosh. "Virtual Desire" has a IIcx/IIci and an LC 500 making its debut appearance. The "Dempsey and Makepeace" episode "Make Peace Not War" has the OG Macintosh and "Crazy People" has a II/IIx and some Apple Macintosh SEs. Finally, "The Demolitionist" has a Macintosh Classic and, also making its debut appearance, the Toshiba T2200SX.

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#computersinmovies #AppleMacintosh #ToshibaT2200SX #retrocomputing

Here are three machines making their first Starring-the-Computer appearance. An Alienware Area 51-M appears in "Pursued", a Toshiba Satellite 400 appears in "Primer" and "Infinite" has a brief shot of a Lenovo Yoga Book.

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#computersinmovies #Alienware #ToshibaSatellite #LenovoYogaBook

There are a couple of computers that appear in "Disclosure" that I missed on the first pass. They are the Toshiba T4600C and the SGI Onyx.

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#computersinmovies #retrocomputing #SGI #Toshiba

Here are four PCs making their first appearance on Starring the Computer. An HP Vectra XM plays a small but important role in "Mercury Rising" and there's a similar role for an Acer Aspire 500LB in "Eraser". "Intersection" offers very minor roles for two new computers: the AT&T 6286 WGS and the IBM PS/ValuePoint 325T.

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#computersinmovies #retrocomputing