Starring the Computer

gitowiec

I found ZX Spectrum! And it was not popular in movies

andrea76

Commodore 64 film list is really impressive.. .

WillAdams

While not a movie, a bunch of NeXT Cubes (at least the monitors) were used in a Madonna video --- apparently some production company got a good deal on machines intended for Japan (hence the katakana interface)

martin-adams

What timing. I was just preparing my Sony Vaio PCT-C1MHP only yesterday to try and sell. I remember seeing this in a movie around 2000 (probably Charlies Angels) and got one. https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=64

hamburglar

No Cray appearances? Surprising.

purplezooey

My fav. so far is the IMSAI 8080 in "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" (2007).

jim_lawless

I remember seeing the TRS-80's in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou but I didn't know that they were Model IV's. According to this list, there was a TRS-80 Model III in the Star Wars TV series Andor: Andor - Season 1, Episode 1, "Kassa" (2022)

ssenssei

Fun Fact: in king of queens, most of the pcs (for example airport episode with doug's parents) are just RCT tvs with paper printout of a screen taped over it.

jmclnx

Ones in the List I have used :) * CDC 6600 * DEC VAX 11/780 (IIRC) * Honeywell H200, did not expect to see this on the list * IBM S/370 (IIRC) * IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads - 760, T43, T420, T61, W500 * Wang Professional Computer - these were bomb proof. I had a 16 bit Unix running on this. * Wang WLTC

timdellinger

“sort by year” is buried on the site, but definitely a fun way to sort there should also be a “you can spot the villain early since they’re the only one not using Apple” sub-list

petra303

I feel like the movie Hackers should have more entries.

Animats

IBM's AN-FSQ-7 panels from 1950s SAGE have shown up in a huge number of movies. They are still showing up in new movies. Woody's Electrical Props in LA rents them out.[1] Those slanted panels aren't the computer. Those are the modems. [1] https://woodysprops.com/item.php?uid=122&page=4

roughly

Similar: https://www.imcdb.org/ IMCDB, the Internet Movie Car Database

afterburner

No listing for Wargames?

piratejon

Pairs nicely with https://accessmaincomputerfile.net/ (although that site might not be working any longer).

ChuckMcM

Its kinda sad that I've owned 26 of them. :-)

bsdooby

Wasn’t there a PowerBook in Blade (I)?

alexhornby

Atari ST, Jason Bourne in the hacker space

jfultz

This is a really impressive amount of effort. Every entry has a fairly even quality to it...screen grabs and contextual descriptions of even one-off episodes of television shows, yet alone decades worth of movies.

sgt

My 90s Macintosh was in How to make a killing (2026). I should put it up there.