I would exercise my power as "Director of IT" to show this movie to all the other programmers in the company during lunch break.<p>At the beginning, when Forbin is shutting off the lights in the data center, and he gets to the second long hallway, I spoke up: "And that's the OTHER megabyte of RAM".
My memory from the time of its debut was that compared to other films in the theaters, this film's title was exceptionally clunky and offputting. Which was and is a shame, because the film is really really good.
I saw it on TV shortly before I started college. My first quarter, I took a class in Fortran IV, and often found the mainframe down when I wished to submit a job for a project. About then, I started wondering about the premise.