Wow! 
I saw this episode once when I was a kid. 
Never imagined I'd see it again...from the net!
I suspect this episode contributed to my interest in electronics.

Starlost episode 'Circuit of Death' aired in 1973
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9RxpafJiXo
This is episode 7.
It was recently posted in alt.binaries.multimedia.
(Much better video quality.)

Side notes: 
1) Twister debuted in 1966.
2) It's Dave Bowman!
3) The technobabble is actually pretty good.
"I want to insert a NAND gate into the lines to permanently inhibit
the self destruct system."


D from BC
myrealaddress(at)comic(dot)com
British Columbia
Canada

D from BC wrote:

> Wow! 
> I saw this episode once when I was a kid. 
> Never imagined I'd see it again...from the net!
> I suspect this episode contributed to my interest in electronics.
> 
> Starlost episode 'Circuit of Death' aired in 1973
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9RxpafJiXo

Thanks, was funny :-) Of course, not very plausible. Why do they need to
walk on a breadboard like circuit with big DIP chips? Would be more
realistic today with small BGA parts and walking under the chip :-)

-- 
Frank Buss, f...@frank-buss.de
http://www.frank-buss.de, http://www.it4-systems.de

Frank Buss wrote:
> D from BC wrote:
> 
>> Wow! 
>> I saw this episode once when I was a kid. 
>> Never imagined I'd see it again...from the net!
>> I suspect this episode contributed to my interest in electronics.
>>
>> Starlost episode 'Circuit of Death' aired in 1973
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9RxpafJiXo
> 
> Thanks, was funny :-) Of course, not very plausible. Why do they need to
> walk on a breadboard like circuit with big DIP chips? Would be more
> realistic today with small BGA parts and walking under the chip :-)
> 

As they say in the script: "It's a VR simulation in the cyberspace 
representation of the networked microprocessor GPS system PCB." Or 
something.

-- 
Dirk

http://www.transcendence.me.uk/ - Transcendence UK
http://www.theconsensus.org/ - A UK political party
http://www.onetribe.me.uk/wordpress/?cat=5 - Our podcasts on weird stuff

Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:

> As they say in the script: "It's a VR simulation in the cyberspace 
> representation of the networked microprocessor GPS system PCB." Or 
> something.

And why do they throw some wires in the box, first, which they use later?
Would be much easier to use a tweezer and make the connections from
outside. This has the advantage that the 12 V (see part 5 of the movie) is
not very dangerous any more :-)

-- 
Frank Buss, f...@frank-buss.de
http://www.frank-buss.de, http://www.it4-systems.de

Frank Buss wrote:
> Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:
> 
>> As they say in the script: "It's a VR simulation in the cyberspace 
>> representation of the networked microprocessor GPS system PCB." Or 
>> something.
> 
> And why do they throw some wires in the box, first, which they use later?
> Would be much easier to use a tweezer and make the connections from
> outside. This has the advantage that the 12 V (see part 5 of the movie) is
> not very dangerous any more :-)
> 

Er... Nanotechnology

-- 
Dirk

http://www.transcendence.me.uk/ - Transcendence UK
http://www.theconsensus.org/ - A UK political party
http://www.onetribe.me.uk/wordpress/?cat=5 - Our podcasts on weird stuff

On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 20:51:51 +0100, Frank Buss <f...@frank-buss.de>
wrote:

>D from BC wrote:
>
>> Wow! 
>> I saw this episode once when I was a kid. 
>> Never imagined I'd see it again...from the net!
>> I suspect this episode contributed to my interest in electronics.
>> 
>> Starlost episode 'Circuit of Death' aired in 1973
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9RxpafJiXo
>
>Thanks, was funny :-) Of course, not very plausible. Why do they need to
>walk on a breadboard like circuit with big DIP chips? Would be more
>realistic today with small BGA parts and walking under the chip :-)

If that Starlost ep. is ever remade...it should depict modern
electronics.
That'll be great eye candy for electronics designers.
'Lookout! Lookout! Don't fail into the micro throughhole!'
(In case anyone is searching usenet for movie ideas, please make a
movie based on this episode.)

Consider...
The biologists got Fantastic Voyage..
The computer programmers got Tron.

AFAIK..Starlost Ep 7 was the only sci-fi show where people got
miniaturized to repair electronics.


D from BC
myrealaddress(at)comic(dot)com
British Columbia
Canada

D from BC wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 20:51:51 +0100, Frank Buss <f...@frank-buss.de>
> wrote:
> 
>> D from BC wrote:
>>
>>> Wow! 
>>> I saw this episode once when I was a kid. 
>>> Never imagined I'd see it again...from the net!
>>> I suspect this episode contributed to my interest in electronics.
>>>
>>> Starlost episode 'Circuit of Death' aired in 1973
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9RxpafJiXo
>> Thanks, was funny :-) Of course, not very plausible. Why do they need to
>> walk on a breadboard like circuit with big DIP chips? Would be more
>> realistic today with small BGA parts and walking under the chip :-)
> 
> If that Starlost ep. is ever remade...it should depict modern
> electronics.
> That'll be great eye candy for electronics designers.
> 'Lookout! Lookout! Don't fail into the micro throughhole!'
> (In case anyone is searching usenet for movie ideas, please make a
> movie based on this episode.)

It would look as ludicrous in 35 years time as the above.
Moore's Law plus 35 years - processing power of the average PC around 
10^18 FLOPS

-- 
Dirk

http://www.transcendence.me.uk/ - Transcendence UK
http://www.theconsensus.org/ - A UK political party
http://www.onetribe.me.uk/wordpress/?cat=5 - Our podcasts on weird stuff

On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:26:39 +0000, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax
<d...@gmail.com> wrote:

>D from BC wrote:
>> On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 20:51:51 +0100, Frank Buss <f...@frank-buss.de>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> D from BC wrote:
>>>
>>>> Wow! 
>>>> I saw this episode once when I was a kid. 
>>>> Never imagined I'd see it again...from the net!
>>>> I suspect this episode contributed to my interest in electronics.
>>>>
>>>> Starlost episode 'Circuit of Death' aired in 1973
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9RxpafJiXo
>>> Thanks, was funny :-) Of course, not very plausible. Why do they need to
>>> walk on a breadboard like circuit with big DIP chips? Would be more
>>> realistic today with small BGA parts and walking under the chip :-)
>> 
>> If that Starlost ep. is ever remade...it should depict modern
>> electronics.
>> That'll be great eye candy for electronics designers.
>> 'Lookout! Lookout! Don't fail into the micro throughhole!'
>> (In case anyone is searching usenet for movie ideas, please make a
>> movie based on this episode.)
>
>It would look as ludicrous in 35 years time as the above.
>Moore's Law plus 35 years - processing power of the average PC around 
>10^18 FLOPS

True..
Once someone makes millions on a movie, who cares if it gets laughable
in 35 years.

If I guess electronics in the far future and use the same Alice in
Wonderland story, they might have to be minified to move atoms around
to make circuit changes.
But crap, there would be no recognizable electronics and the movie
would make physicists laugh the most.
Would be nice if there's some recognizable electronics.
Ultimately, too much crystal ball makes everything unrecognizable.

However...little people making repairs in a quantum computer might
make for a good sci fi movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer


D from BC
myrealaddress(at)comic(dot)com
British Columbia
Canada

D from BC wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:26:39 +0000, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax
> <d...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>D from BC wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 20:51:51 +0100, Frank Buss <f...@frank-buss.de>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>D from BC wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Wow! 
>>>>>I saw this episode once when I was a kid. 
>>>>>Never imagined I'd see it again...from the net!
>>>>>I suspect this episode contributed to my interest in electronics.
>>>>>
>>>>>Starlost episode 'Circuit of Death' aired in 1973
>>>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9RxpafJiXo
>>>>
>>>>Thanks, was funny :-) Of course, not very plausible. Why do they need to
>>>>walk on a breadboard like circuit with big DIP chips? Would be more
>>>>realistic today with small BGA parts and walking under the chip :-)
>>>
>>>If that Starlost ep. is ever remade...it should depict modern
>>>electronics.
>>>That'll be great eye candy for electronics designers.
>>>'Lookout! Lookout! Don't fail into the micro throughhole!'
>>>(In case anyone is searching usenet for movie ideas, please make a
>>>movie based on this episode.)
>>
>>It would look as ludicrous in 35 years time as the above.
>>Moore's Law plus 35 years - processing power of the average PC around 
>>10^18 FLOPS
> 
> 
> True..
> Once someone makes millions on a movie, who cares if it gets laughable
> in 35 years.
> 
> If I guess electronics in the far future and use the same Alice in
> Wonderland story, they might have to be minified to move atoms around
> to make circuit changes.
> But crap, there would be no recognizable electronics and the movie
> would make physicists laugh the most.
> Would be nice if there's some recognizable electronics.
> Ultimately, too much crystal ball makes everything unrecognizable.
> 
> However...little people making repairs in a quantum computer might
> make for a good sci fi movie.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer
> 
> 
> D from BC
> myrealaddress(at)comic(dot)com
> British Columbia
> Canada
..but only if they look at themselves so that they are inonly ONE place...

On 2009-01-03, Frank Buss <f...@frank-buss.de> wrote:
> Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:
>
>> As they say in the script: "It's a VR simulation in the cyberspace 
>> representation of the networked microprocessor GPS system PCB." Or 
>> something.
>
> And why do they throw some wires in the box, first, which they use later?
> Would be much easier to use a tweezer and make the connections from
> outside. This has the advantage that the 12 V (see part 5 of the movie) is
> not very dangerous any more :-)

they mention -12v supply in this part, so negative logic.

all of of the chips are marked 7401 which (in TTL) is a quad nand gate 
but it sounded at the start like the guy said 'an and gate'