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Article #619744Re: 1956 -- circuit reliability book
From: Quadibloc
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 10:29
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 10:29
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In the case of Airplane, it was definitely a joke and not a mistake. In the case of TRON, they wouldn't joke about things like that. But that doesn't mean it couldn't have been deliberate instead of a mistake. They could have felt that the sound of a daisywheel wasn't computer-y enough, and chose the sound effect of the sound of a dot-matrix printer as more suited to the intended atmosphere of the film.
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