---
name: "The Computers of Jurassic Park"
subtitle: "Every screen in the movie, identified"
date: 2026-07-23
shortlist: true
link: "https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html"
linkText: "fabiensanglard.net"
source: "Kottke.org"
topics: [history-and-archives, learning-and-reference]
tags: [film, retro-computing, deep-dive]
description: "An exhaustive catalog of the real hardware behind every terminal in Jurassic Park."
---

An exhaustively researched catalog of every real computer that appears on screen in Jurassic Park, matched against period catalogs and press photos: a PowerBook 100, an SGI Indigo, a Motorola Envoy PDA, a Thinking Machines CM-5. It even tracks down the exact machine behind Lex's "This is a Unix system, I know this!" moment, with the actual file manager she's clicking through.
