Tonight I managed to finish watching the first three episodes of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - A continuation of The Terminator trilogy now serialised by the Fox network. As I watched this a few thoughts came storming in to my head as I saw one of the CGI Terminators in Episode 3. I cast my mind back to 1991 when Terminator 2 came out.
For those who know their computer hardware, did you know that the transformation scenes for the Terminator 2’s evil T-1000 were done by the legends known as ILM - Industrial Light & Magic? Most people will be nodding their heads round about now. However did you know that the machines they used back then consisted of 40MHz Silicon Graphics workstations with 64MB of RAM? Just think about that for a moment and look at the power we have with today’s hardware…scary isn’t it?
That’s cool as heck. And being a computer geek, I can appreciate old hardware like that. Dang, it makes me wish I still had my old 66 MHz 486 DX-2 box. I was so proud of that machine. 16 Mb RAM running Windows For Workgroups 3.11. Heh.
Hmmmm, where did I put my Rise Of The Triad CD?
lol, great game! Wasted many weeks playing that
Great film
I remember when SGi workstations were considered as godly back during the early pentuim era. I was a Cyrix user back then! Super for apps but don’t try doing floating point work! 
I could have done it with a pad of paper and some wax crayons. Pfft.
I hear there are plans for a T4 movie
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