everything in this screen capture is fucking awesome, especially the crimson and the CM-5.
“We didn’t, of course, provide full CM-5s for the set of Jurassic Park; we just provided a few CM-5 front covers. The lights could be programmed to blink in several different patterns. The most widely used pattern was the one produced when the lights were set to “random-and-pleasing mode”. The only mode that reflected any aspect of the machine’s internal operation was the mode used during boot-up. If an error condition occurred the lights could be used for diagnostics. For all modes except boot-up the lights were controlled by a single cheap dedicated microprocessor that had no connection whatsoever with the rest of the machine, so it was easy to provide Spielberg’s crew with stand-alone blinking lights. “
-ken jones
