On August 21st, you’ll have the opportunity to save the world with the same Apple II Desmond used to monitor in The Swan. But don’t get mad at me when you fail to contain the magnetic forces building pressure beneath your basement.
This configuration is an Apple-II Plus system running an Apple-III monitor, with a Disk II floppy drive. This same prop is used as both the Swan and Pearl Station computer (as evident by the Swan logo). At the Pearl Station, the computer is connected to a dot matrix printer with the “System Failure” log printout that alerted Desmond to realize what caused Oceanic Flight 815 to crash.
It would be fantastic if I could write MacStories articles on this thing. Though I imagine you’d get tired of seeing 4 8 15 16 23 42 in every other post.
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That's what MacKeeper_Fan_Modua said 4 weeks ago:
For those who watched the show, but who have never used an Apple II, let alone with the somewhat rare Apple III monitor (rare because the Apple III was a buggy business computer that failed, but you could see its monitor being used by a few with their more-stable Apple IIe in later years): That switch on the front, the one to the right of the screen? You may remember Sayid and / or Desmond frantically flipping it after one of our heroes accidentally shot the computer while arguing with Desmond. In the show, they were VERY worried when the compy didn’t boot up when they flipped that switch. But. . . that’s not the computer’s power switch, it’s only the MONITOR power switch. Since it was the CPU that was damaged and not the monitor. . . oh, well, who cares. . . It annoyed me when I watched it.
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