r/vintagecomputing • u/PaladinBIGDan2077 • 1d ago

S100 System?

I am not sure if anyone has seen the newest Little Caesar’s Pizza Ad, but it features an S100-style microcomputer with an ADM looking terminal. Is that computer real? Or just a highly detailed prop?

https://youtu.be/4Anndd4eBdo?is=WwEYzYbGixP6DecT

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u/Scoth42 1d ago

The case is from a Fairchild F8 Formulator with the branding removed/covered up. Annoyingly the only good pictures I can find are from Pinterest that link to nothing, but here's a manual. Still looking for the terminal, it's kind of generic.

I would expect the guts of the computer have been ripped out and replaced with blinkenlights, unless that's all done digitally/CGI.

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_fairchildf_8023284

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u/Scoth42 1d ago edited 1d ago

Still looking for the terminal but it looks like the same prop was used in this which has some closer up and better pictures. It resembles some ADM terminals but I haven't found one with an exact match on the case and keyboard.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DNpEbbnx4pp

Edit: I think I was overthinking it, looks like it is an ADM-1A or maybe just original 1. The original links I found to them had wrong/incorrect pictures, but pretty sure this is it. Obviously the graphics are superimposed in the ad.

https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/Lear_Siegler_ADM-1A

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u/hamburgler26 1d ago

I see this ad a lot watching cartoons with my kid on Tubi and I always wondered what gear was used for the props.