Nostalgia!

Remember those heady days of your youth, when things seemed so much simpler?

Let us now take you back to that bygone era with a repeat of this lost classic...

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If you're like me, you watch a lot of scifi, and if you're even more like me then while you're watching it, you start to notice that the entire universe seems to shop at the same computer store.

This is due to the fact that a money-conscious director can save a ton of budget money by skipping the tedious and expensive pre-production design and construction phases, and just rent whatever they need from a stock prop warehouse like Modern Props.

So these props get reused over and over again, and they wind up everywhere.

Such is the case with these computer banks, which have appeared in places such as:
Buck Rogers In the 25th Century
Knight Rider
The Last Starfighter
Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan
Star Trek III: The Search For Spock
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

I started to notice their continued appearances, and I started screencapping them whenever they'd appear. After awhile I had built up a nice folder of reference material.

And I decided I'd use the reference material to build myself a set of my very own. After a long day, I'd settle myself in front of 3ds Max, open up my folder of images, and work on a button here, or an LED readout there, and eventually all that tinkering started to add up.

And here they are... with a bear in there for sizing.

I have more of these in various stages of completion, including the infamous "dual generators with neon tubes" which will also someday make an appearance here.

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Boy, that takes me back!