wm@tekchips.UUCP (07/30/83)
Re: what bothers me about how computers are portrayed on tv. Shouldn't this be on net.movies or net.tv? But since you asked ... The only thing I hate is how movies and tv always anthropomorphize computers. Symptoms of this are: - computers that have personalities. - computers that when you give them a contradiction, they throw (the computer equivalent of) a temper tantrum, and blow themselves up. - computers that "grow" because a human gave them some new truth or quest or something. - computers that are the "baby" of some childish scientist, but the computer gets out of hand. I notice that these things only happen to "big" computers. I guess people aren't afraid of Trash-80's. (If they only knew...) Wm Leler wm.tektronix@Rand-relay