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Jurassic Park packed $4 million of legit 1993 computer hardware

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https://www.tomshardware.com/deskto...ed-every-single-piece-of-hardware-in-the-film

"The movie featured 6 different types of computers, a PDA, a supercomputer, and more.

Fabien Sanglard, who currently works as a Software Engineer at Google, has meticulously detailed every computer he can find in the original Jurassic Park movie, finally letting interested fans and viewers know what computers they need to get if they want to recreate the park.

The complete list and corresponding details are available on Sanglard’s website, which shows a total of six unique working computers, a PDA, two large CRT monitors, and a classic mechanical keyboard. He also covered the software that received screen time, including the meteorology software used in the movie to show the hurricane about to batter the island, which was also used in actual newsrooms at the time.

Most of the equipment listed can actually be found in the Jurassic Park Control Room, and even though most were only found in this particular set, they were all real, and most actually worked."

https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html for his complete breakdown.

Pretty cool to see!

Anyone remember working on these in the 90s?

One thing I noticed is the article doesn't identify the workstation Grant and Ellie use at the Montana dig site to visualize the raptor skeleton. Anyone know what that machine was?


DeviceTypeCharacterLocation
Apple PowerBook 100LaptopDr. Alan Grant/Dr. Ellie SattlerMobile trailer
SRI R4000 IndigoDesktopJohn Raymond “Ray” ArnoldJurassic Park Control Room
Macintosh Quadra 700DesktopJohn Raymond “Ray” Arnold (1 unit) and Dennis Theodore Nedry (2 units)Jurassic Park Control Room
SGI IRIS CrimsonDesktopDennis Theodore NedryJurassic Park Control Room
PLI Mini ArraysExternal DrivesJohn Raymond “Ray” Arnold (2 units) and Dennis Theodore Nedry (5 units)Jurassic Park Control Room
Motorola EnvoyPersonal Digital AssistantDennis Theodore NedryJurassic Park Control Room
Thinking Machines CM-5Supercomputer (mockup)(5 units)Jurassic Park Control Room
SuperMatch 20-T20-inch CRT MonitorDennis Theodore NedryJurassic Park Control Room
Silicon Graphics workstation monitor (rebranded Mitsubishi HL7965)19-inch CRT MonitorDennis Theodore NedryJurassic Park Control Room
SGI Granite Keyboard (Indigo Style)Mechanical KeyboardJohn Raymond “Ray” ArnoldJurassic Park Control Room
 
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I remember seeing an SGI system once, and wanted one so bad way back then just to play with, I think I almost bought one off Ebay sometime after they were pretty much useless
 
I got a SGI Indigo 2 system 20 years ago or so, it was too good a price to pass up and I always wanted one. Its a nice looking system, cant beat the purple...plus it came with the side stands so I can keep it vertical like a tower. It weighs a metric ton though, its a serious pain to move around.
 
I was thinking the same thing. These were around the price of a nice new car today. Which is probably a VERY nice car when adjusted for inflation.
 
Ah, that must be why the Trespasser game from 1998 was so clunky when most of us tried it. SGI was the way it was meant to be played…
 
That's impressive to identify what tech was in the movie.
 
Man, back in the day, the SGIs were so much better than the other crud for a lot of things, not just graphics.
 
Eshelmen said:
https://www.tomshardware.com/deskto...ed-every-single-piece-of-hardware-in-the-film

"The movie featured 6 different types of computers, a PDA, a supercomputer, and more.

Fabien Sanglard, who currently works as a Software Engineer at Google, has meticulously detailed every computer he can find in the original Jurassic Park movie, finally letting interested fans and viewers know what computers they need to get if they want to recreate the park.

The complete list and corresponding details are available on Sanglard’s website, which shows a total of six unique working computers, a PDA, two large CRT monitors, and a classic mechanical keyboard. He also covered the software that received screen time, including the meteorology software used in the movie to show the hurricane about to batter the island, which was also used in actual newsrooms at the time.

Most of the equipment listed can actually be found in the Jurassic Park Control Room, and even though most were only found in this particular set, they were all real, and most actually worked."

https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html for his complete breakdown.

Pretty cool to see!

Anyone remember working on these in the 90s?

One thing I noticed is the article doesn't identify the workstation Grant and Ellie use at the Montana dig site to visualize the raptor skeleton. Anyone know what that machine was?


DeviceTypeCharacterLocation
Apple PowerBook 100LaptopDr. Alan Grant/Dr. Ellie SattlerMobile trailer
SRI R4000 IndigoDesktopJohn Raymond “Ray” ArnoldJurassic Park Control Room
Macintosh Quadra 700DesktopJohn Raymond “Ray” Arnold (1 unit) and Dennis Theodore Nedry (2 units)Jurassic Park Control Room
SGI IRIS CrimsonDesktopDennis Theodore NedryJurassic Park Control Room
PLI Mini ArraysExternal DrivesJohn Raymond “Ray” Arnold (2 units) and Dennis Theodore Nedry (5 units)Jurassic Park Control Room
Motorola EnvoyPersonal Digital AssistantDennis Theodore NedryJurassic Park Control Room
Thinking Machines CM-5Supercomputer (mockup)(5 units)Jurassic Park Control Room
SuperMatch 20-T20-inch CRT MonitorDennis Theodore NedryJurassic Park Control Room
Silicon Graphics workstation monitor (rebranded Mitsubishi HL7965)19-inch CRT MonitorDennis Theodore NedryJurassic Park Control Room
SGI Granite Keyboard (Indigo Style)Mechanical KeyboardJohn Raymond “Ray” ArnoldJurassic Park Control Room
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Where does the $4M come from? Were there that many machines? Wikipedia said the Indigo was only $12500, Quadra 700 only $5700.

Great movie - awesome book, because it had a better ending.
 
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Where does the $4M come from? Were there that many machines? Wikipedia said the Indigo was only $12500, Quadra 700 only $5700.

Great movie - awesome book.
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adjusted for inflation, it was "only" 1.75 millions of back in the day dollar according to the book.

apperently highest fully equip SGI tower could go up to $70,000 back in the day, put 4 on the set and your are up to 280k already, maybe buyer always got deal and this is getting exagerated a bit, those non money actually changing hands "values" are easy to play with and i imagine they love to put a value number to match the marketing value to pay no tax....

I would guess it was a non money exchange, you loan you computers you make the product placement in exchange type of deal (really common for cars and others in hollywood)

According to the fabien article in the link you have some $46,000 Thinking Machines in there has well.

You had a vast array of price depending on the option put in those.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/12/17/sgi-workstations
SGI will further cut the price of its Onyx2 Reality supercomputer with two 250-MHz R10000 processors by 45 percent, to $75,000.
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Those numbers were for the base models, basically barebones. By the time you added enough RAM and Disk and other cards to do what you needed to do, a souped up Quadra was closer to 15k. And don't forget about the giant CRT monitor.
 
Dad had Quadras at work, digital prepress, only thing. Back in the day of course.
 
Where are the car computers/monitors from the explorers?
Radios?

And also, firearms?
 
Lateralus said:
Ah, that must be why the Trespasser game from 1998 was so clunky when most of us tried it. SGI was the way it was meant to be played…
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Spend 14 hours trying to actually make the arm and directional movement feel intuitive........and never even get close. On the upside, it had bewbs.
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