My personal favorite is the HP65 in the film "L' Ordinateur Des Pompes Funebres / Nur Computer morden leise (1976)" at approx. 00:13:40 min. This movie was first released on DVD in Germany one month ago (Dec. 2020).
I'm not realy sure if it was supposed to be a gag because of its popularity or a paid product placement back then but it was fun.
Not a movie, but there is a published pic of the Challenger crew [while in orbit], with a HP48.
TomC
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(01-24-2021 02:35 PM)TomC Wrote: [ -> ]Not a movie, but there is a published pic of the Challenger crew [while in orbit], with a HP48.
I guess you refer to this:
https://hpinspace.wordpress.com/2009/07/...e-program/ (But that was Space Shuttle Columbia)
There is also a nice picture of a bunch of HP-41s onboard Space Shuttle Challenger here used by the late Sally Ride (follow the links for a really large image!):
https://blogs.brown.edu/ladd/2015/11/30/...alculator/
Anyway, regarding both topics (HP calulators in movies/media and in space) there have been several dozen threads on this forum already. I can't imagine that there still is an unnoticed appearance...
Regards
Max
Not a movie...
I remember seeing Ross Brawn using a Voyager in Ferrari's box during a F1 race.
(01-24-2021 02:49 PM)Maximilian Hohmann Wrote: [ -> ]Anyway, regarding both topics (HP calulators in movies/media and in space) there have been several dozen threads on this forum already. I can't imagine that there still is an unnoticed appearance...
Apart from a thread in which it was about a very special HP (48) in a very specific film (Spiderman) or in the closes Forum-Archive, I didn't find much about it. Do you have links to the sevaral dozen threads you mentioned?
(01-24-2021 08:32 PM)Peet Wrote: [ -> ] (01-24-2021 02:49 PM)Maximilian Hohmann Wrote: [ -> ]Anyway, regarding both topics (HP calulators in movies/media and in space) there have been several dozen threads on this forum already. I can't imagine that there still is an unnoticed appearance...
Apart from a thread in which it was about a very special HP (48) in a very specific film (Spiderman), I didn't find much about it. Do you have links to the sevaral dozen threads you mentioned?
Just a couple of them:
One
Two
(01-24-2021 02:35 PM)TomC Wrote: [ -> ]Not a movie, but there is a published pic of the Challenger crew [while in orbit], with a HP48.
TomC
Unlikely, since the HP48 was released in the early 90s, long after the Challenger accident.
My guess is that any calculators aboard Challenger would be HP-41Cs. These were in use aboard Space Shuttles since 1983 (-ish?) and the subject of articles in two HP-key note issues (Jan-April 1981 Vol. 5, No. 1 and March - May 1982 Vol. 6 No. 2).
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...see Max's note above....I was mistaken...it was the Columbia...
There's an old coproduction TV-series between Norway, Denmark and Sweden, from 1983 that features the HP-01.
The series is called "SK 917 has just landed" (translated) and the plot is about a hijacked 747. One of the characters (a Norwegian) is a video cassette merchant and who just "won a big hand in poker". In the plot, the price the character bragged that he paid, was NOK 5.000,- or abt US$700,- (in '83).
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Just spotted this calculator in this tour at MIT:
Inside MIT's nuclear reactor
If you aren't at all into nuclear reactors, just skip to 13:52.
It's an HP-35S.
I hope the Reactor Control Program wasn't verified correct by examining the program checksum....
Documentary:
Secrets in the Sky: The Untold Story of Skunk Works -> 59' 44"
An HP-65 on the desk? Maybe there are two tiny gaps on the side ... D-D
(01-28-2021 02:23 AM)rprosperi Wrote: [ -> ]It's an HP-35S.
I hope the Reactor Control Program wasn't verified correct by examining the program checksum....
Well... it's not an HP, and it's not a movie... but I recall seeing Bill Bixby use a TI-59 (including reading a mag card) in an episode of The Incredible Hulk.
Here's the video clip of the TI-59. The Texas Instruments name was removed, but the logo shows. Also, content is blocked for some users based on location of access; so you may need to spoof your IP or use Tor to access from another country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV_WZ3bIG9Q
(01-23-2021 08:33 PM)Peet Wrote: [ -> ]My personal favorite is the HP65 in the film "L' Ordinateur Des Pompes Funebres / Nur Computer morden leise (1976)" at approx. 00:13:40 min. This movie was first released on DVD in Germany one month ago (Dec. 2020).
I'm not realy sure if it was supposed to be a gag because of its popularity or a paid product placement back then but it was fun.
I very much doubt it was product placement but while it contains a lot of stereotypes it also makes fun of them. Overall quite funny 70s French Comedy. I found it on Prime Video but in German only.
The HP65 gets one “full facial” shot, the card reader is shown in action as well as the card being used to label the buttons.
Anyone to identify the desktop computer used?