Being a computer geek, it's always funny to look back at the technology in these old movies, and pick apart the errors.
Funniest scenes in this movie (to geeks):
"Your harddrive is totally fried."
"I printed out blanks."
Why is it wrong to say the harddrive is fried? Does it mean the computer crashes?
shareYeah... I don't get what's wrong with either of those comments.
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but I think the 'old' days hard drives literally fried. The drive would get really hot and some smoke would come out of the 5.25 inch slot. Then came diskettes at a whopping 1.4 MB, those were the days.
Who knew you would carry 1TB in a drive the size of a paperback book?
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those really aren't errors. how old are you? computers used to be much more unreliable and squirrelly. also, i don't think they meant "fried" literally.
shareThe term did actually originate from instances when HDDs overheated and burned out. It became a colloquial term for the drive crashing.
The printing out blanks thing doesn't make any sense, though. Especially since they looked to be using dot matrix printers.
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Roger Ebert has an entry on his Movie Glossary terms, a collection of cliches you see over and over again in films.
I forget the exact name, but this one relating to computers states that whenever computers fail in movies, they always emit sparks and smoke and fail in ways they never do in real life.
I thought this post was going to be able the change in Monty's thesis which basically said that technology would convert the USA into a true democracy.
shareIt was the 90s, fried was the equivalent of burnt out, broken, banjaxed, busted, exhausted.
You're laughing at a figure of speech, not term used to describe how something broke.
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This isn't an "Old Movie" by any measure. You sound like another temporally arrogant millennial who thinks the current technology is as perennial as your own youth ("I'll live forever!"). Guess what, there are plenty of 40 and 50 year old movies and TV shows that feature computers even older than the ones featured in this movie.
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shareYou sound like an 80s baby who thinks life started after the iPhone
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