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== References in popular culture ==
In the 1993 film ''[[Jurassic Park (film)|Jurassic Park]]'', Connection Machines (non-functioning dummies) are visible in the park's control room, programmer Dennis Nedry mentions "eight Connection Machines"<ref>[http://www.moviequotedb.com/movies/jurassic-park/quote_12178.html Movie Quotes Database]</ref> and a video about dinosaur cloning mentions "Thinking Machines supercomputers".

In the 1996 film ''[[Mission: Impossible (film)|Mission Impossible]]'', [[Luther Stickell]] asks Franz Krieger for "Thinking Machine laptops" to help hack into the [[CIA]]'s [[George Bush Center for Intelligence|Langley]] supercomputer.

[[Tom Clancy]]'s novel ''[[Rainbow Six (novel)|Rainbow Six]]'' speaks of the NSA's "star machine from a company gone bankrupt, the Super-Connector from Thinking Machines, Inc., of Cambridge, Massachusetts" in the NSA's basement. In addition, in ''[[The Bear and the Dragon]]'' says the National Security Agency could crack nearly any book or cipher with one of three custom [[operating system]]s designed for a Thinking Machines supercomputer.

In the 2008 video game ''[[Fallout 3]]'', it is mentioned that the pre-war firm that made the computer systems for Vaults is called Think Machine.