IBM existed a good 50 years before mainframes - we started with scales.
To me, Alan Turing was a mystery - it was sort of like something I needed to unravel. And he was also obsessed with puzzles. So I wanted to make the movie like a mystery, like a puzzle that you're piecing together.
Some of our best and unexpected discoveries have been born out of crises - from the Second World War, for example, came Alan Turing's decoding machine, widely considered as the precursor to modern day computers and artificial intelligence.
Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test of time. He gave us a very, very clear description that was truly prophetic.
Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life.
We've seen the power of the PC, and we've seen that it's unstoppable.
Paul Allen with Microsoft revolutionized the software industry.
In my humble opinion, the PC as we have known it is in a continuous decline and being relegated to a utility device for businesses.
