[eddieh]

Yet the Jurassic Park franchise is just as strong as ever.

Thinking Machines CM-5 in Jurassic Park (1993):

https://www.starringthecomputer.com/appearance.html?f=11&c=1...

Jurassic World Rebirth passes $500 M in revenue:

https://www.koimoi.com/box-office/jurassic-world-rebirth-wor...

[6177c40f]

Fun fact, in the novel the computers were Cray X-MPs (sadly Cray is now semi-defunct, since they were bought and merged into HPE) [1].

[1] https://cray-history.net/2023/08/20/cray-systems-in-popular-...

[dibujaron]

Thinking Machines was chosen over the Cray because they had more visual appeal. Sheryl Handler the CEO had (has) a real flair for and it showed; they were neat looking machines

[eddieh]

The Cray machines looked more like an airport seating area. Or with later models, obstacles in a laser tag arena. While the Thinking Machines with the moving LEDs looked alive, almost like it was designed to be a character in a movie, which they became.

[boznz]

Maybe the new company should consider something like this for the next investor show and tell

https://rodyne.com/?p=1674

[riffic]

what? Cray machines were pretty rad looking in their own way.

[CamperBob2]

They were, but they didn't blink.