[geeks] Any ole Sparc

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 08:08:01AM +0100, Joacim Melin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 28 January 2003 20:17, Joacim Melin wrote:
> >> I blame the sad depiction of one in "Enemy of the state".  They are
> >> really nice boxes. (or was that a Ultra 10?)

I believe it was a U10.

> The bird photographer who filmed a murder in the beginning of the movie 
> is in a hurry and has to copy the material somewhere because the "cops" 
> are at his home to get him. So he does that to a Compact Flash card (I 
> think) and does it on a Usparc of some model. He then escapes from his 
> apartment, hands over the CF card, that's inserted in some kind of 
> device, to The Hero of the movie and then gets himself killed seconds 
> later.
> 
> It was *not* Solaris that was being used in that scene but it did look 
> pretty lame to use a cool workstation like that in a quite bad movie...

Err, how do we know it wasn't Solaris?  My recall was that it was a CDE
style screen.