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Three African American women become unlikely heroes in the 1960s Space Race in this Best Picture.
EDIT: Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson (born August 26, 1918) In 2015, Johnson received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was included in the BBC series 100 Women the following year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson
MLAA
(17,288 posts)I cried, I laughed and I cheered. And as a woman engineer retiree from IBM, I enjoyed the history of the first major computer system.
elleng
(130,895 posts)elleng
(130,895 posts)'a woman can't attend!' etc etc etc.
Thus the tears of frustration and empathy. But they will triumph! And then you will cheer. Love a movie about smart women. And in this case smart women who overcome not only misogyny but a double serving of racism on top.
I've seen it (and LOVING) at a theater, and similar frustration and empathy. Hell with VIRGINIA!
Staph
(6,251 posts)Punch cards, FORTRAN, massive air conditioning systems. Though it's a bit before my time, I remember hearing stories about not being allowing to wear nylons in the computer room, for fear of the static electricity affecting the hardware.
I remember punch cards my first year at the lab in Tucson. And then remember the first day of getting email (profs) in early 80s!
Staph
(6,251 posts)was training my whole office on PROFS (training was my final career with IBM -- for 17 years). And from that date I learned and still believe that managers are idiots. I occasionally had to print off emails for the branch manager.
But I also remember with pride that PROFS is the system that caught Ollie North. The idjit thought that deleting an email meant that it disappeared forever. Backups, Ollie! Backups!
MLAA
(17,288 posts)Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)Programming language: Fortran
Punch cards, 80 column, punch yourself.
One compile per day. Turn in your card deck, come back tomorrow.
We never even got to see the computers themselves.
(On a humorous note I had the output from one of the compiles tacked up in the computer room, for the compile with the most errors of any compile om the history of the computer lab. The operator had loaded the deck of punch cards upside down.)
ProudDemForever
(13 posts)1960 RCA Jr. Mathematician also female, also retired. Too low on totem pole to know about these brilliant women who "may" have been the ones who checked the trajectories we crunched out. Paper tape, machine language, Fortran, refrig sized computers coded to play Christmas carols. Hey, all work and no play...
onlyadream
(2,166 posts)Thanks for the heads up. We were just talking about how we want to see it
elleng
(130,895 posts)Glad it's on HBO, tho.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)For those unable to get the app through a TV or a device like Playstation can probably download it for their phone.
elleng
(130,895 posts)(I have a 'dumb' phone, but can watch almost any time.) I have seen it, in a THEATER!!!
spanone
(135,830 posts)JimGinPA
(14,811 posts)But I'm DVR'ing it to watch tonight.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)elleng
(130,895 posts)WON'T have it next week, when I'm at my friend's house.
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)PoorMonger
(844 posts)Just put the next showing on my DVR to watch tomorrow! Hanging with my nephews now but I've wanted to see this.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)I intend to watch it again.
Fantastic movie!
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)Is that legal? I know that Bill Maher gets posted. I would REALLY like to see it but can't afford HBO.
LittleGirl
(8,287 posts)And will watch it again. Love it
Edit:typo
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Gothmog
(145,176 posts)I really enjoyed this movie
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Martin Eden
(12,864 posts)Many great scenes, from the marriage proposal to Kevin Costner smashing off the "colored" sign from the ladies restroom.
Overriding all of this were my childhood memories of the space race. I was born about a month before the Russians launched Sputnik in 1957. Despite the long arc of justice we still needed to travel for human rights, these first steps towards the stars were a wondrous and unifying endeavor of national purpose.
The tears I shed watching this movie were partly for the struggles and inspiring determination of the three women; partly for my childhood memories; and partly for the sad state of our country today.
CrispyQ
(36,461 posts)The words printed on the back: Uplifting in every way.