🚀 go-pugleaf

Yeah, and directors sometimes use standins for computer systems. When
ROBOCOP was filmed in Dallas, the scenes that were supposed to be in
the Detroit police computer center were actually shot in the captive
office lab at Bell Northern Research. Those banks of computer equipment
are really banks of digital telephone switching equipment (5 DMS-250
switches in a row). Lots of flashing lights (power/in-use indicators)
and interesting noises (phones ringing, mechanical relays, etc.). 

And I remember spending most of the night before cleaning the lab so
the film crew could even find room to set up. I was so late getting in
that I missed my chance to meet Peter Weller. But not my chance to get
flamed by all the developers wanting to know why the lab was off limits :-)

-liz