[SunRescue] 3/60 crate

[Bill Bradford]

Speaking of a Sun 3-series, I was just watching "Robocop 2", from 1990 or
so, and in the scene where they're "reprogramming" Robocop after he gets
trashed, the scientist is typing on a Sun 3/60 (its an obvious Sun color
monitor, and in one shot, you can see the Sun badge on the case) to 
"reinforce" his programming.  Its not a Sun keyboard though... obviously
just a prop (funny enough, I also saw a couple of DEC VAX 11/750s or so
in another scene), but kinda cool.

Kinda like the time I was watching an old rerun of _Viper_, and in their
"Power station" headquarters, among all their fancy computers, are two 
SGI Skywriter boxes (big, tall, about the size of a 4/690MP, in a full 
rack) - I thought "if those were actually ON, nobody would be able to 
hear..."

Man, its scary to think that the 3/60 was a *current product* when
RoboCop 2 came out.  Did anybody else notice how RoboCop's "diagnostics"
was made to resemble MS-DOS, while RoboCop 2's "diagnostics" were made
to resemble the Apple Finder, with a skull where the apple normally was?
I thought it was hysterically funny the first time I saw the movie, but then
again I'm a geek and probably one of the few who noticed it..

Bill

On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 10:12:57AM +0100, Peter Koch wrote:
> Hi!
> >what is a 3/60?
> 1988, 1989, high end Sun workstation.
> 68020 at 20 MHz, 68881, up to 24!!! MB, SCSI, Ethernet (AUI+BNC), 
> 2 x serial, keyboard+mouse, onboard black&white graphics
> 1152x900 at 66 or P4-bus color graphics card 1152x900 at 66, 256 colors.
> Runs SunOS 4.1.1 or NetBSD 1.4.

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