[geeks] SGI Indy spotted in "kid" movie...

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 @ 12:36 -0500, Lionel Peterson said:

> Hello all,
> 
> Just wanted to note that I spotted an SGI Indy under the monitor of a
> computer used by the lead in a "kid" movie ("First Kid" [0]) with the
> actor/commedian Sinbad. The computer was being used in a manner
> similar to the *utter* waste of an Emu Emulator ][[1] in "Ferris
> Bueller's Day Off" [2]- to play recorded speech to convince others the
> kid is still in the room. In the case of the movie I saw last night

The recorded speech came from his cassette deck, triggered by a phone
call.

His keyboard was used to make coughing and toilet noises.

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