Re: Technology related anachronisms on TV and in films etc.
Wasn't Thunderbirds made in the sixties, though, when what sixties computers looked like was still current knowledge?
Large boxes and mercury is possibly a nod to mercury filled acoustic delay lines used dynamic memory.
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