Aha ... I first saw the request and thought it was strange that a film would be so specific but I guess the AS/400 they ran has attained some notoriety of its own:
http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh021609-printer01.html http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh111609-story05.html I guess I've gotta give them credit for shooting for technical correctness :O Too bad it's only "set dressing" and we don't get to see any snippets of an interactive session on screen. Best, Sean On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Nigel Williams < n...@retrocomputingtasmania.com> wrote: > > > On 30 Jul 2015, at 7:12 am, Mike Ross <tmfdm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Interesting. So Bernie Madoff used an AS/400? > > ahh bingo! I found this comment on the Amazon book review: > > "The description of the ancient 1988 IBM AS 400 and the terminals from a > 1970's spy film that were still cranking away on the 17th floor when Madoff > went under is priceless.” > > If movie-makers are going for authenticity then they will want a white-box > AS/400 > > > https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/rochester/images/overlay/4506VV4010.jpg > > >