Great Movie

Rating: 9/10 (19 February 2017)

I recently saw this movie and enjoyed it very much. However, as an ex IBM Customer Engineer who serviced a lot of IBM System 360 and System 370 main frames I get picky about computer scenes and was rather amused when Dorothy Vaughan walked into the computer room where the IBM 7090 had just been installed, looked around, walked over to an exposed circuit panel that had a probe from an oscilloscope attached. There was only a flat line on the scope screen, studies the panel for maybe two seconds, then moves the probe to another one of the hundreds of points on the panel, the scope then registers a signal and she says, "There, it was in the wrong place". Not being trained on the machine circuity and not even looking at a logic book, (the "schematic" of the circuitry) she could not possibly know where to put the scope probe or even know what the signal represented. The probe had nothing to do if the machine was going to work or not. I also noticed that when the computer was operating, there were no flashing light on the console panel as normally would be.