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Title: Zaurus In Doctor Who
Post by: eji on September 02, 2006, 06:22:05 pm

So I'm watching the "Dalek" episode of the 2005 series of Doctor Who. And there's this aide who does something odd with his PDA: he expands it.

Close-up comes, and what do I see? One of the silver SL-5XXX Zaurus models.

This episode was set in something like 2020, so I'm guessing that by this time Microsoft has been supplanted by the open-source movement and retro hardware.

Attached are two shots of the close-up. I've also made a mediocre quality MP4 video clip of the short sequence if anyone wants it, but there's not much more revealed than what you're seeing in these images.

Title: Zaurus In Doctor Who
Post by: adf on September 02, 2006, 07:45:08 pm

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So I'm watching the "Dalek" episode of the 2005 series of Doctor Who. And there's this aide who does something odd with his PDA: he expands it.

Close-up comes, and what do I see? One of the silver SL-5XXX Zaurus models.

This episode was set in something like 2020, so I'm guessing that by this time Microsoft has been supplanted by the open-source movement and retro hardware.

Attached are two shots of the close-up. I've also made a mediocre quality MP4 video clip of the short sequence if anyone wants it, but there's not much more revealed than what you're seeing in these images.
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welll...at least a Z looked like "the Future" to someone

Title: Zaurus In Doctor Who
Post by: Cresho on September 02, 2006, 09:00:35 pm

I cant remember where else!

There was a post a few years back about the z in certain movies and was used as a device to do something.  Can anybody remember?

Title: Zaurus In Doctor Who
Post by: Greg2 on September 03, 2006, 08:17:23 am

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There was a post a few years back about the z in certain movies and was used as a device to do something.  Can anybody remember?

https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=386 (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=386)
 

Title: Zaurus In Doctor Who
Post by: Cresho on September 03, 2006, 08:39:16 pm

yeah thats the one.  

Title: Zaurus In Doctor Who
Post by: Ferret-Simpson on September 08, 2006, 07:53:32 pm

I like the BBC even more than before.