If you're a low-budget SF TV show, like early 80s "Doctor Who," and you're writing microcomputer code to draw stuff on the screen … then why not save that money and use that code to make Cool Hi-Tech Computer Screens Full of Code, too? Brilliant!
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This isn't just true of Doctor Who in the 80s. The Amiga was used in a number of low-budget TV series and movies back in the day both as a prop and as a source of graphics. The Max Headroom TV series used it to generate all manner of graphics for the show including the neon bar background for Max's screen (which was originally animated by hand in the British movie that spawned the American TV series). John Carpenter used an Amiga 1000 as a prop in his rather terrible horror movie Prince of Darkness. The Commodore 64 was often repainted and nailed to a console in various bad movies in the 80's as a sci-fi keyboard. And countless IBM-PCs of one flavor or another have been used over the years for generating Movie OS scenes. If anything, the widespread availability of cheap PCs of any kind was a boom to sci-fi TV and movies for decades.
Oh, I know that micros were used for various purposes. I just thought it was remarkably clever that they coded them to create screen displays and used the code listings for other screen displays.