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captpackrat

Boot 'em, Danno.

Feb 04, 2011 17:53

A rather surprising guest star on today's episode of Hawaii Five-0, originally broadcast in 1975, titled "Computer Killer".

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A shifty-looking "computer consultant" watches a gentleman meeting up with an attorney and heading into court. He notes the man's license plate, then gets back in his car and makes a call on his car ( Read more... )

nostalgia, computers, tv

Comments 8

scritchwuff February 5 2011, 01:38:55 UTC

http://picasaweb.google.com/legalize.slc/ADDSEnvoy#

http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/archive/index.php/t-1269.html
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captpackrat February 5 2011, 02:10:54 UTC

Thank you. Weird that the Picasa images didn't show up in a Google Image search.

whitetail February 5 2011, 01:50:51 UTC

Classic!

rustitobuck February 5 2011, 03:46:25 UTC

Hey, that fascinated me when I was a kid.

And I'll be...I didn't know that MTS ever had rotary dial. (see here)

I think in person I only ever saw an MTS mobile phone of the operator-assisted type.

austin_dern February 5 2011, 05:12:35 UTC

Boy, I feel bad for the ham radio guys listening to the car phone frequency when it suddenly got turned into a modem line, but it probably serves then right for eavesdropping.

neat-o! mejeep February 5 2011, 08:21:06 UTC

I never saw a portable CRT terminal 'till this! I've handled luggable computers (Z80 CP/M such as Kaypro, then PC compatibles such as Compaq) and I have a LCD laptop terminal (the Random Colleague). A good eye indeed!

My favorite classic Hawaii 5-0 episode is the 90 second war, part 2 where the mainframe was about to be knocked offline by a cascade of errors induced by hardware plugged in by WoFat's mole.