Some idiot on IMDB stated Saul Bass used computers for the opening of Vertigo.

Hayabusa Rider

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Did you not click hayabusa's link? Interesting stuff, I thought.

Computers are one of those things that are 'older than you think' (in the tvtropes phrase).

We sometimes look at "digital computers" as the only kind, but analog ones were available before that.
 
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Depending on who you ask, the oldest computer is the abacus.

Also, IBM cash registers of the 1800's were basic computers.

I was concerned cuz I couldnt find verification of the Vertigo thing. Even on that site which supposedly has good info on special effects.
 
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That's pretty cool. They used the motion controller to draw directly on the animation cell, rather than outputting digital raster or vector files.
 

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Anyone else excited to see that the computer in question was named the M5?

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Ego obliges me to point out that I already knew that! (I'm ashamed of having such an insecure ego). I think it was mentioned in lesson-one in 'computer studies' in high-school a scary number of decades ago. I mean, Babbage and Lovelace were British, after all, so of course we were going to be told about them - past glories are all we have.

And of course there's also this - which I believe was used for the SFX of a very early movie of Jason And The Argonauts, circa 100BCE.

 
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BarkingGhostar

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I think he means that the OP must bow to the powers of the interwebs and that some sort of computational device was used in the opening credits.