Hello again, Mike-
After receiving your joyous e-mail yesterday, my mind filled with many questions related to the “Wargames” production, many posed by readers of my homage to the film. I’m sure you must tire of such queries so I won’t impose upon you with a list. However, one of the most asked-about items (on my site as well as many others) has to do with the W.O.P.R. as depicted in the film. It is certainly a prop, and bears no small resemblance to the IBM Unit Record equipment of the 1950’s and ’60’s (I worked on such equipment as a Customer Service Engineer for IBM in the mid-’60’s). British archeologist Christine Finn’s 2000 book “Artifacts: An archaeologist’s year in Silicon Valley” credits the origin thusly:
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