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Silicon Graphics - VCF Midwest 18
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SGI IRIX – Mekton (1995, multiplayer game)
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Look what the cat dragged in!
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Watching Twister and I finally just learned that the SGI laptops were fake:
“Twister
“The laptops in Twister were fakes. They were mockups made by the special effects department, build around a Silicon Graphics Presenter display wired off-screen into an SGI Indy.
“You can read the full story of the effects in Twister on Banned From The Ranch's website - have a look at http://www.bftr.com/Pages/projects/twister.html
SGI product placement dictated that ALL of the computers in the film had to be SGIs, so we had the task of making not only two distinctly different sets of graphics for nearly every scene, but different-looking EQUIPMENT between the two teams. This was nowhere more evident than with the SGI "laptops," which of course didn't exist. With the tireless dedication and help of Dan Evanicky at SGI, we were able to design and build two different fake laptop shells around the SGI Corona LCD flatscreen displays, with seven functional and seven dummy cases for each design, we had a handful to take care of; each "laptop" had a powerful custom backlight run off a separate 12-volt DC power supply and multiple cables which ran back off the set (often through mud and puddles) to the Indy CPUs which fed them.”
Via https://www.siliconbunny.com/silicon-graphics-laptops/
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