I din’t have any trouble with that. In 1983 there weren’t many voice chips on the market.
Eh, that floppy-beating rule is obsolete with dirt-cheap flash drives running around.
You didn’t? The entire time everyone is locked in NORAD not once did the computer speak. Not until the BIG DRAMATIC MOMENT.
Maybe it just didn’t have anything to say before then.
Except one time (she was in the lobby of a hotel, I’m pretty sure) when it took her 20 minutes to find a guy on a list of about 100 passengers.
How come when someone is typing a password, it shows up not as the letters they’re actually typing (which would be unsafe) and not as a row of asterisks (which would be realistic) but as a bunch of random non-alphanumeric characters?
It actually did speak earlier, when David (Matthew Broderick) was alone in McKittrick’s (Dabney Coleman’s) office. David logs in through McKittrick’s terminal, and “Joshua” speaks his responses.
Not that that makes Joshua’s final speech any more plausible later on.
Oops.
By the way, why isn’t there ever a hacker with alligator clips hanging from his MoDem?