I saw it the summer before college and found it impressive. During the first quarter of school, I would turn up at the computer center and find the mainframe do

I saw it the summer before college and found it impressive. During the first quarter of school, I would turn up at the computer center and find the mainframe down quite often. The failures were not at all correlated with the due dates of my assignments (Fortran IV, thanks), but it felt that way. The Forbin Project seemed steadily less plausible.