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Michael Crichton used the Button matrix of the screen Map as inspiration for the ui of the computer systems in Jurassic Park while writing the book on a Mac.

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Of course, in the movie it was “Unix! I know this!”

true – and also Macs, specifically Macintosh Quadra 700.

This movie brought me to Linux ("The Free Unix") and Mac.

It's not a Mac (in the "I know this!" scene), it's a Silicon Graphics workstation.

Although a Quadra running A/UX would have been a legitimate Unix at the time, too.

Correct, it's a SG Crimson (there's also an Indigo somewhere). But the other computers are Macintosh Quadra 700 – and 8 Connection Machines (CM5, so no XMP Cray as in the book) in the background providing the blinkenlights.

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