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What The Terminator's on-screen vision code really means [1]

['Natalie Dressed']

Date: 2024-04-21  

Typically, computer stuff in film and tv looks like and is a whole bunch of gobbledygook. Getting someone to successfully look really cool while they're typing on the computer is a miracle. Usually, though, you get those really silly scenes from Swordfish and NCIS.

Ah, but what if the character is itself a computer? Can you get that to look cool? Terminator? Cool? Yes. And guess what, all those line of code scrolling alongside his vision? Someone analyzed them, and they actually add up to something, kinda. Well, they don't mean anything relevant to the plot, but they do give some background on computer knowledge from the time.

A wonderful bit of nerdy sleuthing from [Open source] revealed the following:

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