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Thread ID: 143500	2017-01-28 09:05:00	Hidden Figures	Tony (4941)	PC World Chat

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1431177	2017-01-28 09:05:00	Anyone seen this film? I went on Friday and quite enjoyed it. The sight of the old IBM 7090 brought back the memories, as there was one at the IBM Labs where I worked in the late 60s. I never got to operate it (I was a system/360 man) but my lovely late wife did. It was used for logic simulations. It was eventually replaced by a 7094 - a bit like this one, but with 32 tape drives. 7835 <<<MINOR SPOILER ALERT >>> There's a slightly cringeworthy bit in the film where this woman who has basically never seen one of these behemoths before is poking around in the brand new, non-working computer, having only ever read a book on FORTRAN, and sees a board covered in I guess wire connections, with a probe attached to one of them. "that don't look right" she says, and disconnects the probe and attaches it somewhere else in the mass of wires, at which point the up-till-then dead oscilloscope springs into life. Yeah, right!	Tony (4941)
1431178	2017-01-28 09:28:00	Yes, I went to it yesterday, thoroughly enjoyed it. I have seen the John Glenn memorabilia at the Kennedy Space Center when I went there in 2015, also launch pad 14 at Cape Canaveral! Great movie, and amazing that those women achieved what they did in that era of segregation. LL :)	lakewoodlady (103)
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