The article details every computer spotted in Jurassic Park, starting with an Apple Powerbook 100 in Grant and Sattler's trailer. The Control Room features workstations for Dennis Nedry and Ray Arnold, including an SGI IRIS Crimson and SGI R4000 Indigo, plus Thinking Machines CM-5 supercomputers.

Production used $875,000 of SGI hardware and $350,000 from Apple, totaling roughly $4,000,000 in 2026 dollars. Real systems ran graphics fed from an off‑set room by a team led by Michael Backes.

Nedry's desk includes a Motorola Envoy PDA (unreleased at filming), PLI Mini Arrays (7 GiB for ~$33k today), and a Super Match 20‑T monitor. Continuity errors appear in PLI orientation.

The CM‑5 nodes, each with Sparc CPU and 32 MiB RAM, were the world's most powerful in 1993. Their blinking LEDs were random. The piece highlights how "spared no expense" extended to authentic, cutting‑edge 1990s tech.