I never saw the film as a kid, but if I had, I'd have been super excited to see that Stacey Sutton had the same computer I did! My grandfather, an old-school m

I never saw the film as a kid, but if I had, I'd have been super excited to see that Stacey Sutton had the same computer I did! My grandfather, an old-school mechanical engineer, didn't know the first thing about computers or electronics - but he saw the possibility of something new and significant on the horizon, and when by chance at an early age I showed that I might have a propensity for this strange new kind of machine, he saw to it I'd have the opportunity to develop whatever talent in that line I might have. I'm currently in the sixteenth year of an undistinguished but nonetheless solid career in software engineering, so that seems to have worked out well for the both of us. I could only wish he'd lived to see and take joy in the result, but I don't doubt that, wherever he is, he's smiling.