Terminator: 20 Easter Eggs And References You Must See
12. You Can See Like A Terminator With An Apple II...
The Terminator films are well known for their groundbreaking technical innovations, like the melted steel T-1000 being some pretty advanced special effects for the time, courtesy of ILM (although they were using painted cells rather than CGI). Back with the low-budget original, however, James Cameron and crew had to use some more basic gadgetry. In the first Terminator film, when you see the world through the T-800's eyes, it comes up with a bunch of nonsense text which is actually not nonsense at all. It's actually a dump of t code for the Apple II operating system. If you own that old computer, entering the basic prompt ] call -151 * p will give you the Terminator view.
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