In this show, Season 1, Episode 2 there are sets with some classic systems.
I'm wondering if in the latter one, with the terminals if that is the one which called me trying to buy a quantity of terminals some time ago.
This was called to my attention by a poster on the cctalk list, Stéphane Tsacas.
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TV show Maniac (available on netflix), S1E2 @28.48, at least a PDP 11/40, 11/05 or 04, RX01, PDP-8, and 2 Data General Eclipse, DEC doc binders, and maybe an IBM front panel and more. See https://imgur.com/a/L3iA9CD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maniac_(miniseries)"
Here are some stills I grabbed. There is probably some test equipment in the upper panels above the aircooled IBM cabinets. They seem to be 3480 tape racks, probably in 9303 cabinets.
If I had to guess I'd say the IBM system is a 360/40, but I'm sure more practiced eyes will comment.
The panel with the repeated similar arrays of green blink'n lights have what probably are SCSI drive racks in each. Probably chosen for the aesthetic of having a grill on each. At a later scene one of the actors comes up and talks to it like it's some sort of person, and it talks back.
Will have to see how many episodes there are. This was dropped as a 10 episode block on 18 Sep 2018 according to the epguides.com site about the series.
The grabs below may not preview well, but if I don't mark them to show original size, they can't be brought up unscaled. These are from a 1080p video in the VLC player.
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| closer view of eclipse. Something dec upper right shelf |
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| Eclipse systems to either side |
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| 360 panel on the right, IBM air-cooled to the left. |
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| The guy is talking to the thing here |
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| Terminals in this shot outside the pod |
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| Best shot of fthe right en, with PDP8, PDP11, and eclipse systems |
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