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IMAX emulates PalmPilot software to power Oppenheimer’s 70 mm release (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 years ago by mnrockclimber to c/retrocomputing
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Now this is pretty cool. Who would have thought million dollar projectors would be controlled by a Palm PDA?

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[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's also cases of no one alive knows/remember how it works, there is no documentation and they don't want to pay millions and shut entire sites and operations down to reverse engineer it. Specially with the military.