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Remember the original Terminator movie? Well, we came aross a bit of geeky Terminator trivia this weekend. Whenever you see through the eyes of The Terminator himself, a bunch of computery text is scrolling by. It turns out this text is the source code for an Apple II checksum program, among other programs. The code was first published in Nibble magazine in the early 80’s, so was close at hand when the movie’s producers needed something high-tech for their futuristic robot/killing machine/bodybuilder.
The code featured in the movie runs on a 70’s-era MOS 6502 microprocessor. Does this mean The Terminator himself had enough processing power to run The Oregon Trail? (”The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves. Two oxen die fording a river.”)
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RE: Does this mean The Terminator himself had enough processing power to run The Oregon Trail?
Do you mean the Character, or Arnold?
Either way, the answer is:
Maybe!
But then, I still own…
and run… an Apple ][.
Wish I had Oregon Trail for it!
PML
posted by Pierre Laberge on 2-15-2007 at 10:35 pm
I wonder if Apple would CGI a young Schwartzenneggar into that Mac and PC commercial, in the place of that young, twenty-something kid. That would rock.
“Quit whining about your weakness, girly-man.”
posted by Nat on 2-20-2007 at 8:13 am
You’ve made me laugh, Mister Higgins.
posted by El Gray on 2-28-2007 at 11:36 pm
BUHAHA, GREAT !! :D:D
posted by siudym on 7-15-2007 at 5:37 pm
MOS is a technology. The company that put out the 6502 was named MOS Technology. “You have died of dysentery.”
posted by Mike on 8-16-2009 at 6:04 pm