It can’t just be a computer from the ’80s?—?it has to be THE computer from the ’80s
You may not have heard of the Quadruplex, but it was once a machine of great importance. The reel-to-reel recording device?—?whose late iterations stood at about 5 feet tall and 4 feet wide?—?revolutionized broadcasting in the 1950s by giving the TV industry a quick and low-cost method for recording a show as it aired live. But within just two decades, the giant magnetic-tape-based apparatus was replaced with more efficient technology.
This fact was painfully clear to set decorator Jess Royal when she embarked on a journey to find the hulking piece of broadcasting equipment last year for Christine, a movie set in 1974 about a female newscaster in Sarasota, Florida.
via The Ringer
