From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 12 23:58:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA15354 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 23:58:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from CU-SeeMe.educ.utas.edu.au (cu-seeme.educ.utas.edu.au [144.6.16.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA15349 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 23:58:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (iaint@localhost) by CU-SeeMe.educ.utas.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA08278 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 16:54:10 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 16:54:10 +1000 (EST) From: Iain Templeton To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FREEBSD ON TELEVISION PROGRAM In-Reply-To: <199706130309.XAA09371@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Joel N. Weber II wrote: > Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 21:39:34 -0400 > From: Joel Ray Holveck > > > Wasn't the actual computer that was on the desktop a Mac? (a Quadra > > 700 if i remember). > > There was a Quadra on the desktop, but most of the computers also at > that station were indeed SGIs. > > And if the movie is to believed, the Unix systems reacted to a password > failure by starting a Quicktime movie on the Mac IIRC. A slighly more > interesting hack than my present attempt at getting my Apple IIGS > to behave like a proper dumb terminal... > I was quite impressed by the time it took the SGI to reboot and be ready after the power came back on. Must've been a few seconds (unless I got a weird version of the telly the other week). Wish my '88 vintage Amiga would boot that fast :-( They showing JP on TV in all the other countries that the Lost World is being released in as well? Or it that kind of shameless promotion an Australian trait only (not bl**dy likely)?