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by chickenchicken 843 days ago
Michael Crichton used the Button matrix of the screen Map as inspiration for the ui of the computer systems in Jurassic Park while writing the book on a Mac.
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Of course, in the movie it was “Unix! I know this!”
true – and also Macs, specifically Macintosh Quadra 700.

This movie brought me to Linux ("The Free Unix") and Mac.

It's not a Mac (in the "I know this!" scene), it's a Silicon Graphics workstation.

Although a Quadra running A/UX would have been a legitimate Unix at the time, too.

Correct, it's a SG Crimson (there's also an Indigo somewhere). But the other computers are Macintosh Quadra 700 – and 8 Connection Machines (CM5, so no XMP Cray as in the book) in the background providing the blinkenlights.