Fyi, if you have small hands you can get work as a hand model. E.G. Holding a bottle of liquor makes it look big.
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 18, 2024, at 03:55, Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > In my first job,I was a trainee Field Engineer on a Univac 418 system at > Bell Canada which ran a store-and-forward message service to hundreds of > Model 33 and 35 teletypes across the nation. > > Bell wanted to promote it, so they hired a movie producer. I happened to be > on duty that day. > > The man insisted I push some paper tape into the reader the wrong way. I > explained that I could strip the machine down and show him the ratchet > proving the direction but he wouldn't hear it. He said 'he had seen one of > those before'. > > I have used this as an example to my students why everything you see in a > movie is fantasy! > > cheers, > > Nigel > > > >> On 2024-03-18 06:08, Norman Jaffe via cctalk wrote: >> I had the same experience while working for a (very) small company called >> Northwest Digital Research. >> I was asked to point to a big HP plotter that was running one of our >> programs... and the photograph wound up in our product brochure. >> Of course, I had nothing to do with that program... >> >> From: "Mark Linimon via cctalk"<cctalk@classiccmp.org> To: "General >> Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"<cctalk@classiccmp.org> Cc: "Mark >> Linimon"<lini...@portsmon.org> Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2024 5:43:13 PM >> Subject: [cctalk] Re: DEC Processor Books >> >>> were just DEC employees that caught somebody's eye when they were >>> planning the shots. >> "Planning" may assume facts not in evidence :-) >> >> Some photographers wandered around my employer of the time, Recognition >> Equipment. (Like my Canadian girlfriend, you haven't heard of it.) >> I was near enough to a piece of machinery to be told "point to >> that console like you are doing something to it". So somewhere >> in some ancient Annual Report you can find a picture of a clean- >> shaven me. My 15 seconds of fame. >> >> Well maybe not all 15. >> >> So the "plan" was, we're on deadline, get some shots. >> >> mcl > > -- > Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU > Amateur Radio, the origin of the open-source concept! > Skype: TILBURY2591 >
