Holy FSB, Batman!
Thankfully, there are plenty of other movies to keep the tech-minded brain occupied over the holidays. The team behind Adam West’s 1966 classic Batman movie obviously knew something that we still don’t when they made this camp classic, which is being shown on Film 4 on New Year’s Day.
Take, for instance, his PC: while we make do with poxy power supplies, Batman’s system was powered by the Bat-diamond and overclocked by the Accelerated Concentration Switch, which sounds far easier than having to fiddle around in the BIOS. There’s also such witchcraft as the BatComputer Ingestor Switch, BatComputer BatResistance Signal and the BatCorrection Signal, which put Batman, Robin or Alfred in their place when they’d made a mistake – a feature that’s literally decades ahead of the fabled Clippy when it comes to usefulness.
And that’s not all: Batman’s turbo-charged PC also included a Special Escaped Archcriminal BatLocator and Anti-Crime Voice Analyser, and produced illustrated BatSlides, which were far more useful than the usual text-only cue cards. We’re also incredibly impressed by his ability to discover exactly where Gotham City’s worst offenders are located when his PC seems to be made entirely of blinking lights.
Batman’s roster of gadgets could, in some ways, prove as prescient as Bridget Jones’ real-time emails. His BatPrinter produced forged documents, the BatSpectrograph Criminal Analyser recorded biological information of anyone in close vicinity, and the BatCrime Computer studied a felon’s movements and then predicted his next crime.
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