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War Games featured an IMSAI 8080 with 8" floppies. Why they chose that computer is unknown, since no one really was using those machines by the time of filming.

They mentioned the Commodore PET in the article, but neglected its greatest cameo appearance in Captain Kirk's quarters in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Most movies do an awful job of portraying computers realistically. Take, for example, the attempt to force a C:> prompt on an Apple Macintosh in the movie Office Space. The one movie that really tried hard to get it right, ironically enough, was the Jobs movie last summer. They even went so far as to order a bunch of Mimeo 1 Apple 1 clone kits for realism. It's a shame that they got everything else in the movie wrong, when they did such an excellent job of getting the technical stuff right.

Perhaps he still has one of these.
But I don't see why he wants an antivirus if he does.

There are a few replicas available for those of us who can't afford a real Apple 1. The least expensive is Briel Computers' "Replica 1" which is not a cosmetic replica but more of a "work-alike" computer. Applefritter.com's Tom Owad wrote a book based on that kit. On the other extreme is Mike Willegal's "Mimeo 1" which is an extremely accurate reproduction. I know the people behind these kits/sites and they're all very hobby-centric.

Yeah. Mike Willeagal (creator of the Mimeo-1, and owner of the Apple 1 Registry site) even went to the trouble of creating a custom font for the silkscreen layer. I asked him if he X-Rayed the original board, and he said "No", and that he simply took a LOT of high-detail photos, and then went back and forth, printing out his board and laying it on a light table with the original.

I don't know much about the Replica 1; but it isn't a cold-copy of the original, like Mike's is. It's so close that I asked him if anyone has tried to auction one of his off AS an original. He said he deliberately put a marking on his board to prevent that from happening...

And yes, as an owner of an Apple 1 myself, it IS that close.

There are a few replicas available for those of us who can't afford a real Apple 1. The least expensive is Briel Computers' "Replica 1" which is not a cosmetic replica but more of a "work-alike" computer. Applefritter.com's Tom Owad wrote a book based on that kit. On the other extreme is Mike Willegal's "Mimeo 1" which is an extremely accurate reproduction. I know the people behind these kits/sites and they're all very hobby-centric.

http://www.willegal.net/appleii/appleii-disk-int.htm

That cover it? That was kind of a yahoo question too, since google tracked it down in about 3 seconds.

And there's another clone using a similar approach (of emulating the video section with a microcontroller,) and a 100% trace-for-trace replica (read: except for the cloner's signature hiding in the board, you can't tell that it's a clone at all) out there.

(There's also the Obtronix replica, which is 100% chip-for-chip, but not trace-for-trace, identical. It's no longer in production, though.)

Done.

http://www.willegal.net/appleii/appleii-recreation.htm