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I received an email from John Graham-Cumming telling me my code was in the original Terminator movie. And it's true!

Here's the still from the movie:
and here's the article from the May 1984 issue of 73 Magazine:
I now have more "nerd cred" than you!

@FozzTexx #defcon #retrocomputing #retrogaming #terminator
....and I had NO IDEA about this until I got this email. I remember seeing the movie and thinking "HA! Robots from the future use COBOL". Sadly, this may turn out to be true.
I should add my "ham" callsign is no longer AF2M as showin in my byline. I changed it to W4DIS when I was a Disney Imagineer. (I now regret that decision!)
It looks like they lifted the image of the source code from the source code right off the page, so an image printed directly from my very own Centronics 737 printer (we submitted camera-ready listings to the magazines) appeared in Terminator.
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