http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/ Engadget Comments for WarGames 'Shall we play a game?' computer for sale; credit cards at DEFCON 1 (video) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/Apr 13th 2010 5:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/Apr 13th 2010 7:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/I am from the Kin generation (or as microsoft put it, "generation upload"...) - altough I would never buy one, I might add - and have never heard or seen that.

Having watched the trailer above, I have just added it to my LoveFilm queue. Looks fantastic, in fact, I'm bumping it up to "high" priority as we speak.

Engadget - do recommend films more often!]]>Apr 13th 2010 7:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/Apr 13th 2010 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/
Slap Shot (the original). Low tech. Low budget... You know. Sort of like PALM.]]>Apr 13th 2010 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0865957/
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Just give in to the nerd in you and go play Defcon already!

http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/about/screenshots.html]]>Apr 13th 2010 5:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://bit.ly/protovision



]]>Apr 13th 2010 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/
Great movie though. I watched it a few weeks back. What was nice was there were no real bad guys. Everyone was doing what they thought was right. There was no anal heavy security either. They just locked him in the infirmary.

]]>Apr 13th 2010 5:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.imsai.net/Movies/WarGames.htm
This states the modem is a camouflaged Cermetek 212A
The Bell 212A or V.22 could do 1200, see.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_device_bandwidths
Reliability back then had a LOT to do with the quality of the phone lines.
My exchange was still electro mechanical switching, noisy as hell. There wasn't much to connect to anyway (In NZ 1985) . I think I used that modem a total of about 5 times and gave up. More fun to build than to use.]]>Apr 13th 2010 6:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/Apr 13th 2010 6:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/That was my friend's accoustic coupler modem. He and I and a few others did the original technical work on the movie. We had to reset the dot clock on a godbout s-100 computer to run at 24 frames per second so we could sync with the camera and the process projectors on the back wall, all running at 24 fps. Then we had to build a box to shift phase so our rock solid sync was a full frame of picture. No one had ever done that before. I was told it couldn't be done. Now Panavision sells a box that does that. We had fun making it.

Lots of politics though. HUGE studio politics. Fired directors, new directors. Quitting producers marrying fired directors. Local # 44 employees getting caught stealing. All very stimulating at the time, now just a footnote in history. I always thought that was my IMSAI, and said so on a web site somewhere and some guy got very upset at that notion claiming the box was his. Who knows? But 25K? I probably paid 2K for it back in the day which was hugely expensive then. Now, with the limited capabilities, it's worth more as nostalgia than for its inherent functionality.]]>Apr 13th 2010 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/I worked on that picture. The word waterboarding was not in the vocabulary when we made it. There was no wb scene.]]>Apr 13th 2010 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/How about a nice game of chess?"

Classic.
]]>Apr 13th 2010 5:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/Apr 13th 2010 5:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/Apr 13th 2010 5:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/
Better than being a Y I suppose, they are struck down with the OC delusion.]]>Apr 13th 2010 5:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/Apr 13th 2010 5:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/
Watch that flick with a generation Y'ling and pay attention to their reactions. Hilarious!]]>Apr 13th 2010 6:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/
OC delusion? Wuzzat?]]>Apr 13th 2010 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/Yep. If you look closely at the background wall and the 24 process projectors, you can see a moment where Khadaffi's country invades Chad, Russia responds, the US responds, GTNW ensues. We just made all that stuff up. But then that one story actually happened, minuse US/Russia involvement and GTNW.]]>Apr 13th 2010 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/ ROTFL]]>Apr 13th 2010 5:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/Apr 13th 2010 5:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/Apr 13th 2010 5:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/Apr 13th 2010 6:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/Apr 13th 2010 5:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/Apr 13th 2010 5:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/It was somewhat remade. War game 2 was released (check Netflix streaming). They tried to preserve the memory of not saying it was a remake. But it didn't continue the story line at all from the first one. And yes. War games 2 was a horrible horrible movie. ]]>Apr 13th 2010 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/
RLY? I loved War Games 2.
See it as a movie on it's own, not as the 2nd part of War Games.]]>Apr 13th 2010 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/
And I love the guy ripping into his teacher like that. LOL]]>Apr 13th 2010 5:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/Apr 13th 2010 6:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/Apr 13th 2010 6:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/Apr 13th 2010 6:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/Apr 13th 2010 7:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/
"Appraised" at $25000? I would like to find out how much the obsolete stack of used computer junk that I have would be appraised at.

There is a IMSAI 8080 for sale on ebay right now for $3200. You could buy that and just claim it was the one used in the movie. No one would know the difference... and nobody would care.

I wonder if they will sell you the office chair taht Ally Sheedy was sitting on in that clip for a few additional thousand dollars?

The WPOR would be worth $25k.........]]>Apr 13th 2010 6:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/The WOPR was something the Production Designer built after I showed him the MGM Payrol computer which was old, old IBM EAM equipment (Punch Cards). The rounded corners and grey crinkle surface of the metal was astonishingly old school for a major motion picture studio to collect their time & attendence data on, but studios weren't very computer savvy back then. A famous Apple fellow complimented us on the accuracy of equipment that dated for the military. That's how the military rolled then: they kept old tech FOREVER.

When we went to a few places to ask for large display screens for the back wall, no one had that tech in '81. Now it's all over Vegas and the world. At the time, we decided on Process as the only viable alternative. (Process = a projecter BEHIND the screen projecting images, in sync with the camera. This is how you see moving backgrounds in old movies through the back window of the car they're 'riding' in.) The image guys who all had Gov't contracts joked that a General somewhere would see our picture and want that same tech for real, not realizing that we built all the images (plates in movie parlance) using an HP3000 computer that ran color basic. It took FIVE MINUTES to render a single frame. So 2 hrs. for 1 second of finished film. We ran the whole thing in a small closet near MGM. And every so often, someone would go in and change film mags, and then let the apparatus run unattended. Caveman by today's standards, but that's what we had in '81. Nice to know so many still like and remember that picture.]]>Apr 13th 2010 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/Apr 13th 2010 11:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/Apr 13th 2010 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/
I just wish that computers actually made the noises that the one in the film does. Every word that appears on the screen is accompanied by this oh so cool sound effect. I need to digitize it and find a way to make my iMac do when I type or at least create a screen saver that does it, maybe one that does the voice and sound effects of some of the computer phrases from the movie.

Man I love this film and need to buy it on Blu-Ray, it's one of those movies I try to watch every few years. ]]>Apr 13th 2010 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/Apr 13th 2010 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/Sure was a great movie ,still is . ]]>Apr 13th 2010 8:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/Apr 13th 2010 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/Apr 13th 2010 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/Apr 13th 2010 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/Apr 13th 2010 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/
Nope. -1 mindreading score, Engadget!]]>Apr 13th 2010 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/13/wargames-shall-we-play-a-game-computer-for-sale-credit-cards/Apr 13th 2010 12:17PM