Swan station computer
This configuration is an Apple-II Plus system running an
Apple-III monitor, with a Disk II floppy drive, each featuring DHARMA logo. This prop
computer was used at the Swan station and by Desmond, Locke and other cast members to
enter "The Numbers" every 108 minutes. It is the destruction of the Swan station computer
that prevented "The Numbers" from being entered, leading Desmond to trigger the
fail safe mechanism, causing the Swan station to implode. (Of trivial interest is a 1980s film,
entitled "The Self," employed in some psychology classes today, which features an Apple-III
computer monitor that is used to test the effect of positive personalities. Incidentally, the
numbers 4, 8, 16, and 23 appear frequently in these tests.) The monitor currently exhibits
the DHARMA Tempest station logo, indicating its subsequent use in the Season Four episode,
"The Other Woman."
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