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computer works on the boat??

posted 10 years ago by camj979
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Towards the end of the film, during the Bluestar montage, there's a scene of Wildman on his boat, looking at the stocks on his computer.
I was a kid in the eighties, so was that possible back then? How would the computer receive info in the middle of the ocean?

[–] DoctorShemp 10 years ago

Maybe back then people were so new to computers that the filmmakers were able to flub that concept without anyone questioning it haha

[–] johnston.scot 10 years ago

There were (a) ship-to-shore phones and (b) modems.

[–] Milkdoesabodygood 9 years ago

And Qlink @ $40 a month, pfftttt

Spoiler alert for them spoil sports out there! Y'all like spoiled milk, stop crying over it!

[–] gvpgroup 9 years ago

The boat had built in wifi

[–] sage2112 7 years ago

lol this wasn't set in 1965.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Short wave was used for data in a lot of cases as well.

If you ever see the TV show Emergency (early 70s), the remote vitals monitor machine they use is done via short wave. It's data transfer too.

[–] captainbucky (15252) 5 years ago

Never thought I’d be on a boat