I may not be a nerd, but I am a dork. Was such "animated graphics" possible at the time using that type of equipment?
As an aside, does it drive anyone else crazy with the beeping and other noises that computers make on TV/film. I know, suspension of disbelief. But, sheesh! It automatically upstages everything.
It was actually very state of the art back then; people saw huge changes around that time with the advancement of the home computer and the invention of the micro chip in cars which made autos more futuristic and the launching of the first cellular phones.
shareIt was perfectly fine and probably was made in a PC. But you certainly could not do that in a few seconds, and especially not by typing on a keyboard, no matter how smart you were. That was the thing that bothered me about computers in movies of that time: if you were really good, you could do some crazy stuff in no time. Star Trek IV has a similar scene where Scotty creates a 3D-model of a molecule of some chemical compound in seconds, just because he was used to much more advanced computers and that was "child's play" for him. It doesn't even make sense.
shareThat was a computer program run on a floppy disk most likely. The sound effects could be part of that program.
shareThe short answer. No.
You could not just randomly type and those figures would be produced.
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