Aliens 1986 Prop Identification

[King of Pirates]

Hello fello RPF'ers, I was Marathoning Alien yesterday and came across this. I'm unsure as to wether or not it is a prop or an exsisting piece of Equipment of some sort. (Maybe an older Laptop of some kind?)

Any help i can recieve on this is well appreciated.


(This was the computer/device Hicks used to activate the Remote Sentry Guns at 1:29:50 into the movie.)

 

[Sidewinder]

Its a GRiD sytems 1530/1535 laptop.

SAS

 

[King of Pirates]

Its a GRiD sytems 1530/1535 laptop.

SAS

Ah wonderful, thanks! Now to go about finding one :lol

 

[Scapey]

Good luck!

If you find one, stop by the Aliens Legacy and let us know.
BTW, if you get a WORKING one, there are programs out there for emulating the display seen in the movie.

 

[Noeland]

Doesn't it also go by the name "gridcase" laptop??

 

[Rook 3]

Actually, the one in the pictures is the Grid Compass (maybe the Compass II). It use bubble memory and lacked nifty things like a floppy drive or hard drive. The Grid/Gridcase 1520 was a 286sx processor, and came out several years after the film.

But as a "close enough" for a prop replica, the 15XX series works fine.

Russ

 

[Eagle]

I thought it was a GRiD Systems 1139 laptop?...

http://www.harryharris.com/comp.htm

:confused

 

[Rook 3]

The Compass II is the 1139.

Russ

 

[wantabejango]

would that be the same bishop used to being the drop ship down?

 

[SSgt Burton]

No- Bishop's "portable terminal" was different from the Sentry Gun remote laptops.

I don't think Bishop's terminal was an actual computer; looks more like a prop made for the film- there is a pic of it on Willie's website:


http://www.alienscollection.com/uplink2.jpg


Kevin