[geeks] War games WOPR? Real system?

Chris Byrne chris at chrisbyrne.com
Sat Apr 27 00:59:29 CDT 2002


War games SE dvd. It was made by the props guy from from tupperware,
plywood, foam, some random electronics components etc...

It did remind me a lot of supercomputers of the day.. which was kind of the
point, but I dont think ti was based on any specific machine.

Chris Byrne

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
> Of Ethan
> Sent: 27 April 2002 06:53
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [geeks] War games WOPR? Real system?
>
>
> Anyone know if the WOPR was just a box with lights? Or was it a rebadged
> mainframe? Didn't Boroughs have LCD screens like that (bleeding edge at
> the time) ?
>
> Poked around on google, couldn't find anything useful.
>
> 				-- Ethan
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