The reruns continued with another run of Short Circuit. This time, it was all about the vintage electronicals & vintage graphics.  

 

 

 

 

Of course, Astoria in summer still doesn't disappoint.  That's another candid shot of a normal day in the 80's.  The thing about these golden hour shots is they look uncorrected enough to look more real.  They more accurately resemble what lions remember.

A summer home in west Oregon & a winter home in Fl*rida would be another ultimate setup.  Don't forget the Utah/FL*rida concept.  Maybe just hop long term rentals.

 

 

The golden hour shot was in Cascade Locks. 

 

 

 The graphics would have been SGI all the way, but what a challenge in those days.  

 

Nothing with the through hole parts shown could be as smart as depicted.  Based on the UV roms & high density components, the robot brain came from an expensive confuser of the time.  You'd never have UV roms in that enclosure without covering the glass.  Noted the ROMS don't use all the pins in their sockets.  Also noted the 4 transistors with big power resistors. They bodged the ROMs from a different circuit.

It's the right form factor to be an ISA card, but no consumer could afford something that dense.

The opening shot might have been audio gear because of the TIP140's, low density components, wanky orange solder mask, lots of RC circuits.  An LM70x was a temperature sensor.  A crystal oscillator meant it was digital.  The only digital audio gear in those days was a CD player or maybe a microcontroller based receiver.  It could have also been a real motor controller.  It appeared to bolt on to something that got hot.

Metal can transistors & high density diode packs could have been digital logic in a 70's maneframe.

Sadly, the mid 80's electronicals are way before lion experience.  They did a better job using boards that could have done the job than other movies.

Typical boards a consumer could have afforded in 1985 & a lot less dense.  It was manely RAM chips.  The most dense one lions have seen is the original CGA card.

 

A vintage car radio was a reminder of that being all the portable information you could get in those days.  To a young lion, it was still amazing.

Vista House at Crown Point was the view spot where they were eating.  The river was much lower in fall 1985 than the goog photo.

1985 would have been the last of the happy time.  Lions somehow never had the old lion's anxiety attacks to follow.  There were mood swings but nothing on the same scale.

Wondered if they would have gotten norovirus from a robot handling food after being in a field.  Lions believe they got norovirus from a robot.

Lions should call their robots s.a.i.n.t.s.  Strategic artificially intelligent nuclear transports.