--- title: "Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail" url: https://daily.dev/posts/jurassic-park-computers-in-excruciating-detail-qeumef2rn source_url: https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html type: article source: "Fabien Sanglard" published: 2026-07-14T08:59:12.053Z updated: 2026-07-14T09:00:40.582Z tags: ["unix", "computer-history"] reading_time: 10 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail **[Fabien Sanglard](https://daily.dev/sources/fabiensanglard)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A detailed breakdown of every computer and piece of software visible in the 1993 film Jurassic Park. Covers the Apple PowerBook 100 in Alan Grant's trailer, the SGI R4000 Indigo and SGI IRIS Crimson workstations in the Control Room, PLI Mini Array storage devices, the Motorola Envoy PDA (which appeared before its commercial release), Thinking Machines CM-5 supercomputers, Macintosh Quadra 700s, SGI Granite keyboards, SuperMatch 20-T and Mitsubishi monitors, and software including IRIX's gr_osview, the fsn 3D file explorer behind the famous 'It's a Unix system' scene, and QuickTime on System 7. Includes inflation-adjusted cost comparisons and production details from 'The Making of Jurassic Park', noting that Apple and SGI loaned roughly $4 million (2026 dollars) worth of hardware for the film. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Old Vintage Computing Research: Refurb weekend: Silicon Graphics Indigo² IMPACT 10000](https://daily.dev/posts/old-vintage-computing-research-refurb-weekend-silicon-graphics-indigo-impact-10000-dlwfbmupx) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The tech of ‘Terminator 2’ – an oral history](https://daily.dev/posts/the-tech-of-terminator-2-an-oral-history-lwtjr34ft) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Guess The Movie Scene From This Wireframe View](https://daily.dev/posts/guess-the-movie-scene-from-this-wireframe-view-yx5vjvb8i) · 80 LEVEL · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#unix](https://daily.dev/tags/unix), [#computer-history](https://daily.dev/tags/computer-history) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/jurassic-park-computers-in-excruciating-detail-qeumef2rn)