I love that there are a bunch of computers running Apple’s A/UX, their home-spun implementation of UNIX. Very niche
Odd that the author of this article didn’t take the opportunity to mention it.
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The Motorola Envoy is a proto-smartphone developed with technology from General Magic. It is a hideously expensive and niche device and yet it barely appears in the film.
The head of frogdesign (Hartmut Esslinger) ended up running into Spielberg on a plane and showed it to him. The one in the movie is an original mockup
Jesus. That's almost more impressive than Nedry's "ah-ah-ah!" being animated in pre-alpha After Effects, because the right people ran across the designers at a Mac convention.
On Ray Arnold's desk, we can notice a weird keyboard with a connector on the side. This is a SGI Granite Keyboard (Indigo Style). It is a pretty cool keyboard with two 6 Pin Mini-DIN connectors on each side. The keyboard can be connected to the workstation from either side and the mouse is to be daisy-chained into the other port.
The original iMac did this! The less said about that mouse, the better.
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