References in Popular Culture
In the 1993 film Jurassic Park, the character Dennis Nedry refers to networking "eight Connection Machines", indicating that the computers that run the fictional park are supplied by the Thinking Machines company. The narrator actually mentions "Thinking Machines supercomputers" in a video that explains the process of cloning dinosaurs. Connection Machines (non-functioning dummies) are visible in the control-room of the park as well.
The 1996 film Mission Impossible has a reference to the company when Ving Rhames character Luther Stickell asks Jean Reno's character Franz Kreiger for Thinking Machine laptops to assist with a hack into the CIA's Langley supercomputer. See wikiquote:Mission: Impossible (film)
Tom Clancy's novel The Bear and The Dragon mentions that the National Security Agency was able to crack nearly any book or cipher by using one of three custom operating systems designed for a Thinking Machines supercomputer.
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