anyone know?

I think it was called W.O.P.R, although I dont remember what it stood for.. It was also called Joshua after the blokes son.. :-)

Scott

thanks steelhead. I know I could have googled but I thought I'd post to see how quickly i could get a response :hihi:

You've just helped with the latest office conundrum :thumbsup:

Seems like you have the answer but I thought I would add W.O.P.R = War Operation Plan Response.

nice one mod man I'll save that for later

An Xcellent movie!

I have it on VHS and watch it quite often :)

More useless trivia - David Lightman's home computer was an IMSAI:

http://www.imsai.net/

There's also some Wargames trivia on there!

Yes, the official name for it was WOPR, but the AI would answer to the name 'Joshua'.

The first 5 minutes of that film with the blokes down in the silos preparing to fire the missiles was very effective. It's still one of my favourite movies.

The general in that movie eventually showed up as the retired astronaut / local entrepreneur Maurice Minnifield in the excellent 'Northern Exposure'.

"No, Let's play, Global Thermonuclear War."

"No, Let's play, Global Thermonuclear War."
Go on then. (http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/)

More useless trivia - David Lightman's home computer was an IMSAI:

http://www.imsai.net/Quite interesting!!

W.O.P.R - War Operation Plan Response
It was Stephen Falken and John McKittrick who originally designed and built it, and as many people have said, it answered to the name Joshua, which was Falken's son who had died..

i have the movie if you wish to come and watch it :)


and I also have that Defcon Game - its VERY addictive!