Best Films Featuring 70s/80s computers

[maxtherabbit]

What are your favourite movies featuring realistic depictions of 8-bit computing? Wargames is obvious

 

[jafir]

While not a movie, and probably never will be a movie, there is a book titled Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card that has a computer programmer for one of the main characters. The character wrote a successful game for the Atari (I don't recall if they say specifically, but I'm pretty sure it's talking about the 400/800, and not the VCS), and at some point there is talk of porting it to the C64, and eventually the IBM PC. I think it's a pretty decent book, a little weird in some parts.

 

[jlang]

I liked the PDP-8 in Three days of the Condor, but it's 12 bit.
It was doing scanning and OCR ... A bit much for that computer, but nothing silly wrong.

joe

 

[maxtherabbit]

No need to believe in either side, or any side. There is no cause. There's only yourself. The belief is in your own precision.

 

[powerlot]

The TV show Lost comes to mind with its Apple II.. btw major "spoiler" for this thread: The page "Starring the Computer" https://www.starringthecomputer.com/ features a catalog of computers and also scores the realism for the era and how it was used

 

[syzygy]

I think the IT Crowd series deserves an honorable mention. While the shelves were always cluttered with the period-appropriate PCs, they would stick some oddly inappropriate pieces in the set...

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MITS Altair 8800 (I think)