Does anyone else remember “Fantastic Voyage”? An awful movie from the ‘60s, I think. But my teenage boy’s mind was emblazoned forever with the image of an antibody wrapping its arm-like appendages around Raquel Welch’s perfect body, in a skin tight costume, of course.

Bob

 

Hey, at least there are no big, bright red 7-segment LED displays counting down with a loud beep-beep each time it decrements a value.
And cutting the wrong wire color, will always cause the countdown to speed up 10X.

And in the 1950s Sci-Fi movies, one would always see an oscilloscope displaying a Lissajous pattern. And some indicator lights flashing randomly. And the casual analog voltmeter sprinkled here and there. Ambience was provided by the sound of a Theremin.

 

Let's look at something good from the 50's.

 

Does anyone else remember “Fantastic Voyage”? An awful movie from the ‘60s, I think. But my teenage boy’s mind was emblazoned forever with the image of an antibody wrapping its arm-like appendages around Raquel Welch’s perfect body, in a skin tight costume, of course.

Bob

Yeah, I remember thinking, "No please!, not her!... anyone else but her!"

 

Data from Star Trek, is an Android, with nice clinking LED's under his skin, and big solder blobs, but is also super advanced. I like Data and old gen ST

It takes a long time to map out PCBs of any complexity, and that's with them in your lab, w/ test gear. Imagine all the movies where you have to figure out a "what wire to cut"

I made a circuit this weekend, and kept all the parts nicely laid out, but the wire coloring is a mess, and all spliced up too. I already attached PWR to GND, and might have "interfered" with the host circuit, in a bad way, something has gone wrong.

 

Or this...

 

Or This ...

 

Or This ...

Your home network or .v1 “HAL”?

kv

 

Or this...
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Order, Order, Order in the Network Rack.................

Spaghetti Trail Mix.

kv

 

Let's look at something good from the 50's.

WOW, that is Leslie Nielsen as the ship's commander!

So that is how he learned to deadpan ridiculous sentences without bursting out laughing or even smirking!

 

WOW, that is Leslie Nielsen as the ship's commander!

So that is how he learned to deadpan ridiculous sentences without bursting out laughing or even smirking!

He was a great actor in this movie.

 

And of course, you have to see the lab for El Santo.
For those not familiar with him, he was a Mexican masked wrestler, a super-hero which made movies which would fall between James Bond and Agent Maxwell Smart.

 

And of course, you have to see the lab for El Santo.
For those not familiar with him, he was a Mexican masked wrestler, a super-hero which made movies which would fall between James Bond and Agent Maxwell Smart.

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His movies were hilarious... terrible dialog, terrible script, terrible actors and even worse special effects... they were so bad you couldn't miss them... he's a legend down here.

 

I always thought the Illiac 4 Processing Units were a rather impressive rat's nest.






There were 64 of these things, and they slid into place like giant peripheral cards. I have heard this machine was part of the inspiration for HAL 9000, with all those modules that Dave Bowman deactivates at the end. Also in the movie, HAL9000 was born in Urbana, IL on January 12, 1992, when I happened to be a CompE student there. Maybe this is more an example of good movie electronics, though.

 

I finally found the El Santo clip:

 

I finally found the El Santo clip:

Oh man.... I can't stop laughing...

 

My all-time fave is the Boris Karloff Frankenstein when the "monster" is brought to life by harnessing lightning.

 

 

Just watched the first episode of the first season of the new McGyver series remake in Amazon Prime... it was bad, Bad, BAD.... it was so bad that I didn't even bother finish watching it till the end.

The point where I decided to simply drop it was when the guy made a small electromagnet using a AA battery, some wire and a nail (it was fine until that point), but then he used it to interfere a bodyguard's com, producing noise so loud in his ear that the guy got distracted and our hero was able to sneak into a highly secured place....

Yeah... right... I'm still wondering how he made said electromagnet oscillate at the appropriate frequency and how much EMI he was able to produce.... NOT.

 

Yeah... right... I'm still wondering how he made said electromagnet oscillate at the appropriate frequency and how much EMI he was able to produce.... NOT.

I have always wondered why you should never cut the red wire!??