#time circuits

[kahran042]

Someone should do a music mash-up of "Behind the Circuit" from Phantasy Star IV and "Time Circuits" from Chrono Trigger. They could call it "Behind the Time Circuits". Well?

[bgsbracelets]

mcfly july 2024 || bracelet edition || 🌲 || day 16

Paradox

My take on some Time Circuits bracelets!

A. Type: Euro || Metal: Silver || Weight: 1.1 oz || Beaded Length: 7.00" B. Type: Euro || Metal: Silver || Weight: 0.8 oz || Beaded Length: 5.00"

C. Type: Heishi || Metal: Silver || Weight: 0.2 oz || Beaded Length: 6.00"

[stuartfdrake]

Back to the Future Part II dir. Robert Zemeckis

[scifiloser]

[rk8con]

The time train references from issue 5 of Tales from the Time Train.

“Although our final storyboards (see issue 3) did not include a specific look at the 19th Century version of the time circuitry, the work of building the train had begun well before the shooting plan was finalized, and this included a complete interior of the cab. Here is artist Marty Kline’s original drawing of the cab and the rarely seen locomotive time circuits. Note that Doc used typewriter keyboards to input the data. --Bob Gale”

[mendozas06-blog]

Analog semiconductors, discrete semiconductors, embedded processors, microprocessors and more

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Something bugs me about the time circuits in Back to the Future.

The LED letters on the actual prop were never designed to read every month, only those pertinent to the story.  Just look at how they cheat when Doc Brown punches in the month December.

Look at that D, that doesn’t fit with the rest of the LEDs.  These are obviously supposed to be 7-segment displays to be evocative of a pocket calculator (maybe 9-segment, because of the T in Oct, but even that doesn’t fit with the other letters).

If you look at the way they write NOV, you can tell they had to replace the display depending on which month was supposed to appear in any given shot.   You can even see some of the unlit segments in the “day” and “year” displays, so only “month” was changed.

The mid-line of the T does not fit with the diagonals of the N or V.

7 Segments, 9 segments, 14 segments, 16 segments.

Some letters are impossible to write as shown in the movie with any of these displays.  We never see all 12 months written out, so we don’t know how they’d write them out

JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC

There are all the letters they’d need: ABCDEFGJLMNOPRSTUVY

Here’s how it could be done with 16 segments, but it still wouldn’t look like it does in the movie.  The prop designer obviously wanted it to be simple with 7 segments, but realized it couldn’t be done that way when the script called for impossible letters.

[crystaldennismusic]

Corridors of Time with lyrics [Chrono Trigger] | Crystal Dennis