In Popular Culture
The TAM is seen in several episodes of the ninth season of Seinfeld in Jerry's apartment.
The TAM is visible behind Chandler's office desk in the fourth season of Friends in the episode "The One With the Worst Best Man Ever".
A prototype TAM is on the desk of Linus Larrabee in the 1995 remake of the movie Sabrina. The TAM prototype sits on the far right side of Linus, on a dedicated side desk. The CD player has a see through port in the middle of the door that allows for the CD to be inserted and removed, this see through feature was removed in the production version that has a solid dark grey plastic door. The actual unit that Linus had on his desk was Apple's in house development model that Apple lent to the studio.
The computer used in Jasper's hideout, in the film Children of Men, to show the video feeds of intruders breaking in is a TAM. In this movie it would be 30 years old.
A TAM is used by Alfred to write a CD (a capability the real computer did not have) in Batman & Robin.
The TAM is used by the housemates on MTV's The Real World: Seattle.
The appearance of the NAVI computer seen in Serial Experiments Lain was greatly influenced by TAM.
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