WarGames was always extra special for me, for so many reasons.
I got my first computer in 1982, and my first modem a year later. (This was only a few years after I'd taken a BASIC programming course that involved using acoustic coupler modems and printing terminals to dial in to the computer.)
The ferry and island scenes were filmed very near where I was living at the time. (My parents later retired there, and you can see the ferry dock from their back deck.) When I saw the movie in a theater not too far away, there were cheers when that scene came up. The guy on the boat was an actual ferry crewmember, too. (Though I still don't know how they went from running down the boat launch ramp to being on the ferry dock; short range teleportation?)
Heck, even the back cover ad from the computer magazine David was reading was for Elephant brand floppy disks, which I bought at the time. :-D
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I got my first computer in 1982, and my first modem a year later. (This was only a few years after I'd taken a BASIC programming course that involved using acoustic coupler modems and printing terminals to dial in to the computer.)
The ferry and island scenes were filmed very near where I was living at the time. (My parents later retired there, and you can see the ferry dock from their back deck.) When I saw the movie in a theater not too far away, there were cheers when that scene came up. The guy on the boat was an actual ferry crewmember, too. (Though I still don't know how they went from running down the boat launch ramp to being on the ferry dock; short range teleportation?)
Heck, even the back cover ad from the computer magazine David was reading was for Elephant brand floppy disks, which I bought at the time. :-D