A prank that starts with a group of college students creating a fictitious person so they can get a credit card develops into a plot that leaves three of them dead.
I'm 24 now and the old movies are the best. It pisses me off that the new movies don't have that spark, or that fun little things in the old movies. Like the stop motion or the real explosion, or real fire. No computer's, no fucking green screen Real places like in the cannibal holocaust, like in dead alive. The list is endless with the old epicness in the older films ☺. On the other hand some of the other newer movies like ded pool Paperman, eazyA or any marvel films or Jarry Brookhimers films. Or Matt Stone Or Tray Parker's sows or movie's. There are good, better in almost in evey way. But.... I don't know, I just like the old movies alot 😌. My heart is with the old movie's. Love them. Thanks for the upload 🙂.
A very underrated film. Amazing that in 1971, this TV movie dealth with so many of today's topics like hacking, identity theft, the Internet (at least in the sense that the computers were connected by phones and could access and utlize info from other computers), and artificial intelligence! Of course, it's all through mainframes, but amazing predictions of problems and issues now commonplace with modern computing. And Stefanie Powers and Dean Stockwell bring their acting talents to whatever roles the play. Never knew this existed until I saw it on the Comet science fiction network early this morning
up until several years ago, predictive programming borne by output like this movie was more accurately and thus tellingly referred to as *prescriptive* programming 👀
I so remember this. 13 at the time and a budding science enthusiast, any sci fi interested me. When he used the word logarithms I was intrigued and ran to the big family dictionary to look it up. My memory failed me and I never associated the actor with his later works until I saw this video on youtube
Thank you for making this available. I watched it when it first came out and even the rerun. The story really holds up well. I never forgot the elevator scene. It's also nice the dialogue makes sense and is technically accurate.
As a huge James Stacy fan I was thrilled to find this forgotten gem! Never shown in the UK so I missed out on this - love Stephanie Powers as well - quite an intriguing idea for its time! Many thanks - and for those commenting about James on here -he is still going strong and appears at conventions etc he is a true survivor!
Stefanie Powers, stunned - "Oh wow! D'you mean you can create an entire Henry Norman in here?" Dean Stockwell, calmly - "It's theoretically possible." 😁😁😁
Awesome movie!👏👏👏 Always had a bit of a crush on Dean Stockwell (he was the ultimate "disturbed individual" 😈 in all those '60s and '70s TV shows and movies), a seriously underrated performer (I really felt badly for both he and Scott Bakula in that sad crap, "Quantum Leap"--YIKES!!!😨). Thanks for sharing another great movie from my generation. Why is it the stuff they made for TV back then is better than the 💩 they spend millions on now in the theatres!🎬🎥🎭
Thank you so much ! I had been looking for something good to watch and finally went with UA-cams recommendation. Alas a film that had excellent actors and storyline. I even saved it to watch again later the first time I've done that Once again let me thank you for sharing such an amazing film!👍🏻👍🏻🍿🍿
I saw this way back when 1921 and I’m so glad to see it again I had just gotten out of Bellevue Hospital at the time 🥴 I even had a bit part in the movie.
I was 21 when I saw this, just back from Nam, and the storyline always stuck with me. It used computers before computers became the domain of Joe Q. Public and identity theft as a theme long before identity theft was an idea to create a creepy horror plot with lethal consequences.
Nick Howes Sorry you had to be there but Bless you for your service. You served without thanks. At a time when many people bailed. If you’re ever in East Lyme CT, I’ll buy you and you’re significant other dinner!!!
@@peterm1826 Eeeeweee, that is a strong-smelling absence-of-a-life you're sporting in public there, Princess. You feel bad about yourself, we get it, geez, dial it back a mile. Then look at your little phone, access a dictionary or several, and explore the definition of the word "cliche" so you might begin using it correctly, if not within your actual rights to call anything a cliche.
@@Carly8Corday how's it going being a keyboard warrior having much luck since you obviously don't have a life replying to a comment that's six months old maybe you should look up the word in your little phone called attention whore and explore that definition poor misguided creature
This is a 20th Century-Fox TV movie that was so well made that it was released briefly in the theatres. Written and produced by Anthony Wilson, story editor for a short lived western at Fox called, "Lancer", with star James Stacy also from that series. The big flashing light panel is from the old series "The Time Tunnel", also a Fox production.
ddc300 Artras Anthony Wilson also was the creator of the fun 70's show Banacek with George Peppard. He was also involved with the Land of the Giants and Planet of the Apes tv series.
Can't believe this has < 200K views. I remember Dean Stockwell from Alfred Hitchcock's hour episode "Annabel" (bizarre story about scorned lover/psycho). Aside from the great acting, the story is so relevant about Identity Theft(spoof)...
They definitely were. My father (1926-2006 ) was a systems analyst and worked for Santa Barbara County in the 60's through the 80's. His boss sent he and a co-worker to a 2 week training class and told him to figure out computer programming. Back then, one single computer took up a whole room. The computers were programmed by punching holes in cards, sort of like typing. They hired women to be the "key punch operators" sort of like typists. The computers had to be kept in smoke free, dust free rooms. The "file" they handed to that one guy at the beginning of the movie is the EXACT type of paper we had a stack of in our book case in the living room, leftovers from my dad's job for us to color on. Kind of brought back memories. When it was County election time the computers counted the votes and my dad was always called in to work overnight because there were SO MANY glitches in the programs and people had to go fix the glitches all the time. Now look where we are! Just thought someone younger might find this interesting.
Love Dean Stockwell! His hair is naturally curly, especially when it's longer (watch his films from when he was a child actor and you'll see what I mean). He only wore this particular style for a few years.
It was so funny to play games on such computers. You were able to get a list of coordinates of your ship and enemies' rockets and ... after a few hours of calculations understood that you'd won.
Saw this movie years and years ago, and it is more frightening than I truly remember it being!!! Gary Bailey KingofDarkness Hats off to everyone!!! GBKOD
Suspenseful scenes from this movie have been in the back of my mind since I was ten. Watching it again brought it back to me. I loved it then. So cool to relive it with my daughter. Altho she looked at it and said "that's old." LOL.
This movie and the movie Demon seed with Julie Christie were two films about spooky computers that creeped me out as a little kid when I first saw them! Cool to see this one again !!
Great movie. First viewing for me. I suspected James Olson from the beginning. A fine actor, who should have been a much bigger star. Many thanks for the upload 😀.
I can see why my parents shielded me from these types of movies when I was a kid, that Tina Chen scene, wow, nightmare central, lol. This is a good movie now that I am allowed to see it, lol.
fantastic, love the "computer" talk- killer cast, love Dean Stockwell, he always played these tortured geniuses- sad to see James Stacy, this was before his catastrophic accident on a motorcycle- he lost an arm and a leg and eventually drank himself to death- the young asian actress working on the computer was in "3 Days of the Condor"-
Now, this was a great tv movie - keeps you "guessing" thru most of it. *Stephanie Powers resembles Raquel Welch with that hair style, which is an added bonus....
this sounds very much like dos basic, the run commands are VERY familiar. run john, see john, see john run, sounds kind of like the run commands in basic as well as the loop and the end commands in basic. there's one program i use to like to encode that caused ur computer to count, and that was for x + 1 to xxx, next x,. end, and i use to add a loop command so that it counted infinately from 1 to a given number lol. those were the days lol
I have this movie in my collection. I remember when it was first shown on television when I was a child. It is a great film! Very suspenseful and very atmospheric. This may not be classified as a horror film but it's spooky enough that it should be. Even the sound track is spooky. You really can't make a film much better than this!!!
I love how 1971 this movie is ... "Don't hassle me babe". "Let him do his number". "The Big Ugly that keeps trying to stick numbers on people". "An obvious computer goof, right?". "He's been saving your neck while you've been in the sack" "You were never a part of this whole trip anyway." It's a great flashback! Love Joel's t-shirts... particularly smiley faces. Joel's eye-and-hand mobile is pretty cool. What happened to Lisa and Jerry was freaky. "It's called logging in" ;) This is a good mystery.
@TVTERRORLAND --- I agree. It's ironic that I have more channels to choose from, but end up watching less and less television. If it wasn't for TCM and UA-cam I wouldn't watch anything at all.
Setebos .... I know a guy who took all the packages. Not sure how many channels he has but his bill is huge. The thing is....he hardly ever watches television. He's always on his computer! Yet, doesn't have the sense to cancel any of his packages. Must be great to have money to burn!
It took me a minute to realize the guy w/ the curly hair was Dean Stockwell. Good actor, he was in TV show 'Quantum Leap' too. I could've sworn I heard he had died, but Internet has no death date (Maybe the computer changed it lol). And Stephanie Powers looks really pretty here. The youngest I ever saw her was in 'Heart 2 Heart' TV show. She could've been a Charlie's Angel. Thanx for post. I'd comment on the end but don't wanna spoil it
lol differant advertizing ploy lol, "a cute little plastic rectangle, that gives u instant credit! get yours today!" lol starts out weiord but still lol.
The scene where the lady is running through the halls and the lights are shutting off is nearly identical to what was used later in 'The Grudge.' There was even an elevator involved in the scene, I'd bet a bundle they got the idea from THIS movie, it's so similar.
i'd cut up the damn card if i found out the card was activated fraudulantly under a name i didnt recognize, that's after i had the bank investigate the issue that is. u cant do that now and not get it for identity theft lol.
1971 was the year I read that paper by Chandler on creating a thinking machine, or what later became known as AI. He was convinced that it was a mater of developing the right programming (i.e., software). Decades later Bill Gates believed that AI would require the invention of new hardware for computer memory storage & recall. He called this "bubble memory" that would mimic human associative memory. In this movie the hardware couldn't have "thought" anything. It could only follow a program written by a human. So the woman's death in the elevator becomes more believable - the result of a series of at/if or if/then program statements written into the control program for the elevator.
i miss those days... when people actually talked to each other and hung out together and had fun
Ya, the good old days.
✌☮🕊
IT WONT happened as people are hooked and getting more and more addicted to living the computer very unfortunately
@@icuryy5826Agree 💯
Nice to see that these old TV movies are getting a second life on youtube.
i agree. I watched these 1970's movies as a kid scared at night.
Most of these movies are better than what's available today.
Logging in, hard to imagine hearing that term in 1971!!!😊
I'm 24 now and the old movies are the best. It pisses me off that the new movies don't have that spark, or that fun little things in the old movies. Like the stop motion or the real explosion, or real fire. No computer's, no fucking green screen Real places like in the cannibal holocaust, like in dead alive. The list is endless with the old epicness in the older films ☺. On the other hand some of the other newer movies like ded pool Paperman, eazyA or any marvel films or Jarry Brookhimers films. Or Matt Stone Or Tray Parker's sows or movie's. There are good, better in almost in evey way. But....
I don't know, I just like the old movies alot 😌. My heart is with the old movie's. Love them. Thanks for the upload 🙂.
This movie was definitely ahead of its time.
Stockwell: "it's called logging in"
🤣
And that would be a mouse 🐁
Thank you. Not seen in decades. Enjoyable film.
I remember watching this movie when it first came out, and it was far ahead of its time.
you saw this in 1971?
I watched this when it first aired. I was very young but remember this vividly!
not any more .what a sad world we have now
wow this is sooo 1970's. I was only 6 when this came out but m parents would always tune into these 70's late night TV shows.
Michshnly ....
Wouldn't you have been in bed when this was playing?? 6 years old...
10pm was my time to hit the sack not 9pm
A very underrated film. Amazing that in 1971, this TV movie dealth with so many of today's topics like hacking, identity theft, the Internet (at least in the sense that the computers were connected by phones and could access and utlize info from other computers), and artificial intelligence! Of course, it's all through mainframes, but amazing predictions of problems and issues now commonplace with modern computing. And Stefanie Powers and Dean Stockwell bring their acting talents to whatever roles the play. Never knew this existed until I saw it on the Comet science fiction network early this morning
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Yes, I am impressed with the movie for the reasons you wrote.
@@Mike-pj1kv it's 1 of the first movies to deal with Satanism in the corporate world
up until several years ago, predictive programming borne by output like this movie was more accurately and thus tellingly referred to as *prescriptive* programming 👀
The title is what took me so long to coming around to watching it.
great movie, I must of watched this 20 times I just love it, cant get enough of it. the days of carbon copy printed slips. such good times.
I so remember this. 13 at the time and a budding science enthusiast, any sci fi interested me. When he used the word logarithms I was intrigued and ran to the big family dictionary to look it up. My memory failed me and I never associated the actor with his later works until I saw this video on youtube
1972 visiting the London University, punch cards, amazing memories...
Thank you for making this available. I watched it when it first came out and even the rerun. The story really holds up well. I never forgot the elevator scene. It's also nice the dialogue makes sense and is technically accurate.
As a huge James Stacy fan I was thrilled to find this forgotten gem! Never shown in the UK so I missed out on this - love Stephanie Powers as well - quite an intriguing idea for its time! Many thanks - and for those commenting about James on here -he is still going strong and appears at conventions etc he is a true survivor!
James Stacy rides a motorcycle in the film.
Stefanie Powers, stunned - "Oh wow! D'you mean you can create an entire Henry Norman in here?" Dean Stockwell, calmly - "It's theoretically possible." 😁😁😁
I saw this movie when I was a kid and it freaked me out. An excellent movie.
Love the Seventies ! Just turned 60 !!
One of the best TV movies ever. Thanks.
I kept waiting for Dean Stockwell to start singing into a lantern.
trouble light
When the scene cut to the computer, with the eerie background music and those
rows of ominous blinking lights, I almost screamed....well not really.
Love this one! Could be redone now and still good!
Thanks for the UpL.
Thank Heavens ❤️ for your angel smile.
Stefanie is just amazing, in everything she does!!!
Awesome movie!👏👏👏 Always had a bit of a crush on Dean Stockwell (he was the ultimate "disturbed individual" 😈 in all those '60s and '70s TV shows and movies), a seriously underrated performer (I really felt badly for both he and Scott Bakula in that sad crap, "Quantum Leap"--YIKES!!!😨). Thanks for sharing another great movie from my generation. Why is it the stuff they made for TV back then is better than the 💩 they spend millions on now in the theatres!🎬🎥🎭
Dean Stockwell was on Psyche Out in 1968, and Dunwitch Horror in 1970
double thumbs up for stockwell's quality 'fro, fabulous and good film too
THIS MOVIE IS GREAT!! THANKS FOR UPLOADING!
Thanks. Without your channels, I wouldn't be aware of these little gems.
Oh boy: when logging in was considered cutting edge.
Thank you so much ! I had been looking for something good to watch and finally went with UA-cams recommendation. Alas a film that had excellent actors and storyline. I even saved it to watch again later the first time I've done that Once again let me thank you for sharing such an amazing film!👍🏻👍🏻🍿🍿
Great movie! Thank you!!
Very cool upload, thank you 😊
Thats great that you could watch this movie with your daughter, happy I could share the film with the both of you.
I saw this way back when 1921 and I’m so glad to see it again I had just gotten out of Bellevue Hospital at the time 🥴 I even had a bit part in the movie.
You saw it before it was even made! Can you share the secret? ;))))
@@E-Kat They came out of the hospital.
Only now we can see how sleek these TV movies were! Thanks!
I was 21 when I saw this, just back from Nam, and the storyline always stuck with me. It used computers before computers became the domain of Joe Q. Public and identity theft as a theme long before identity theft was an idea to create a creepy horror plot with lethal consequences.
Nick Howes Sorry you had to be there but Bless you for your service. You served without thanks. At a time when many people bailed. If you’re ever in East Lyme CT, I’ll buy you and you’re significant other dinner!!!
so you had to point out you were in nam
suppose next cliche when i was in afghanistan
@@peterm1826 Eeeeweee, that is a strong-smelling absence-of-a-life you're sporting in public there, Princess. You feel bad about yourself, we get it, geez, dial it back a mile.
Then look at your little phone, access a dictionary or several, and explore the definition of the word "cliche" so you might begin using it correctly, if not within your actual rights to call anything a cliche.
@@Carly8Corday how's it going being a keyboard warrior
having much luck since you obviously don't have a life replying to a comment that's six months old maybe you should look up the word in your little phone called attention whore and explore that definition poor misguided creature
@@peterm1826 Shut the hell up you f*ckin' idiot.
This is a 20th Century-Fox TV movie that was so well made that it was released briefly in the theatres. Written and produced by Anthony Wilson, story editor for a short lived western at Fox called, "Lancer", with star James Stacy also from that series. The big flashing light panel is from the old series "The Time Tunnel", also a Fox production.
ddc300 Artras Anthony Wilson also was the creator of the fun 70's show Banacek with George Peppard. He was also involved with the Land of the Giants and Planet of the Apes tv series.
Can't believe this has < 200K views. I remember Dean Stockwell from Alfred Hitchcock's hour episode "Annabel" (bizarre story about scorned lover/psycho). Aside from the great acting, the story is so relevant about Identity Theft(spoof)...
This is pretty cool. I didn't know computers were that big of a deal that long ago to be able to create a movie like this.
They definitely were. My father (1926-2006 ) was a systems analyst and worked for Santa Barbara County in the 60's through the 80's. His boss sent he and a co-worker to a 2 week training class and told him to figure out computer programming. Back then, one single computer took up a whole room. The computers were programmed by punching holes in cards, sort of like typing. They hired women to be the "key punch operators" sort of like typists. The computers had to be kept in smoke free, dust free rooms. The "file" they handed to that one guy at the beginning of the movie is the EXACT type of paper we had a stack of in our book case in the living room, leftovers from my dad's job for us to color on. Kind of brought back memories. When it was County election time the computers counted the votes and my dad was always called in to work overnight because there were SO MANY glitches in the programs and people had to go fix the glitches all the time. Now look where we are! Just thought someone younger might find this interesting.
Love Dean Stockwell! His hair is naturally curly, especially when it's longer (watch his films from when he was a child actor and you'll see what I mean). He only wore this particular style for a few years.
Clever. Thanks!
This is a great movie, worth seeing.
OMG, can you check this program for me - hands him a dozen cards!!! 😂😂😂😂. Hard to believe that was comp sci once
great story,ready for a modern version
It was so funny to play games on such computers. You were able to get a list of coordinates of your ship and enemies' rockets and ... after a few hours of calculations understood that you'd won.
Saw this movie years and years ago, and it is more frightening than I truly remember it being!!! Gary Bailey KingofDarkness Hats off to everyone!!! GBKOD
Good movie. One actor from Quantum Leap and one from Hart to Hart...2 very successful tv series.
Suspenseful scenes from this movie have been in the back of my mind since I was ten. Watching it again brought it back to me. I loved it then. So cool to relive it with my daughter. Altho she looked at it and said "that's old." LOL.
This movie and the movie Demon seed with Julie Christie were two films about spooky computers that creeped me out as a little kid when I first saw them! Cool to see this one again !!
I was hunting for this flick for a while and was getting the name wrong, Paper Men.
Thank you for uploading.
Great movie. First viewing for me. I suspected James Olson from the beginning. A fine actor, who should have been a much bigger star. Many thanks for the upload 😀.
I can see why my parents shielded me from these types of movies when I was a kid, that Tina Chen scene, wow, nightmare central, lol. This is a good movie now that I am allowed to see it, lol.
Saw this when I was in fourth grade. It creeped me out.
Great movie!
Great movie 🎥! Thank you ☺️
seeing this movie for the first time and i must admit, its old but good.
Ah yes, the technological seventies when a personal computer required owning a fork lift....
Haven't seen this since it was first broadcast. Thanks for uploading it.
you saw this in 1971?
HAHA! "Only on alternate Thursdays and when I'm nervous!" "This must be Thursday." HAHAHAHA!
Great movie 🥰📺📺📡📡 Great memories ❣️
thanks for this terrific channel
fantastic, love the "computer" talk- killer cast, love Dean Stockwell, he always played these tortured geniuses- sad to see James Stacy, this was before his catastrophic accident on a motorcycle- he lost an arm and a leg and eventually drank himself to death- the young asian actress working on the computer was in "3 Days of the Condor"-
Jeez this was great! Thanks!!!
Like a precursor to AI! Great movie... thanks for posting!
Great upload!
Now, this was a great tv movie - keeps you "guessing" thru most of it. *Stephanie Powers resembles Raquel Welch with that hair style, which is an added bonus....
Wow, good movie!! thanks!!
Computer engineer, and making 28,000 a year. How times have changed. ...
I make twice that in a week.
they were trying to teach us binary in junior high school.. 1969
Creepy movie, keeps you in suspense.
i love how they pair the creepy music with the computer. like it's the boogyman
They need to grab the original source of this movie and remaster it.
this sounds very much like dos basic, the run commands are VERY familiar. run john, see john, see john run, sounds kind of like the run commands in basic as well as the loop and the end commands in basic. there's one program i use to like to encode that caused ur computer to count, and that was for x + 1 to xxx, next x,. end, and i use to add a loop command so that it counted infinately from 1 to a given number lol. those were the days lol
14:45 Joel's a gamer. Amazing the computer stuff of today that was in embryo in the early days.
Good movie. Thanks.
I have this movie in my collection. I remember when it was first shown on television when I was a child. It is a great film! Very suspenseful and very atmospheric. This may not be classified as a horror film but it's spooky enough that it should be. Even the sound track is spooky. You really can't make a film much better than this!!!
I love how 1971 this movie is ... "Don't hassle me babe". "Let him do his number". "The Big Ugly that keeps trying to stick numbers on people". "An obvious computer goof, right?". "He's been saving your neck while you've been in the sack" "You were never a part of this whole trip anyway." It's a great flashback! Love Joel's t-shirts... particularly smiley faces. Joel's eye-and-hand mobile is pretty cool. What happened to Lisa and Jerry was freaky. "It's called logging in" ;) This is a good mystery.
AstralPixie ...
You missed "fink".
It's been a long time since I heard that term.
@TVTERRORLAND --- I agree. It's ironic that I have more channels to choose from, but end up watching less and less television. If it wasn't for TCM and UA-cam I wouldn't watch anything at all.
Setebos ....
I know a guy who took all the packages. Not sure how many channels he has but his bill is huge.
The thing is....he hardly ever watches television. He's always on his computer! Yet, doesn't have the sense to cancel any of his packages.
Must be great to have money to burn!
It took me a minute to realize the guy w/ the curly hair was Dean Stockwell. Good actor, he was in TV show 'Quantum Leap' too. I could've sworn I heard he had died, but Internet has no death date (Maybe the computer changed it lol).
And Stephanie Powers looks really pretty here. The youngest I ever saw her was in 'Heart 2 Heart' TV show. She could've been a Charlie's Angel. Thanx for post. I'd comment on the end but don't wanna spoil it
Stockwell was wonderful in 'Compulsion.'
and I get scam emails, scam phone calls weekly and daily as my information gets misused and passed around.
Perms were very popular for men in the 70's, Martin Shaw had one in The Professionals
Looks like I remembered 70s tv looking like good movie steffinie powers is always a treat to see
worth a watch.
3:49 That's Dean Stockwell? The Dean Stockwell who later played 'Al' on Quantum Leap? Lots o' hair in this one!
+Stanley TryHard 8:51 is that a dot matrix? Not many people logged in back then, huh?
+Stanley TryHard Dean Stockwell's best performance was in The Dunwich Horror
He did some marvelous work as a child actor too. The Boy With Green Hair is brilliant.
Dean Stockwell - Curly and his Gang.
Stanley TryHard.... that was the decade for afros. The hair salons made lots of money curling everyone's hair.
Never even knew that John Denver acted in B movies.
He is not just a country boy 😂.
lol differant advertizing ploy lol, "a cute little plastic rectangle, that gives u instant credit! get yours today!" lol starts out weiord but still lol.
It gets too implausible by the middle but finishes okay.
MeTV website brought me here!
Good Movie.
Logging in!!! Wow...that's amazing...
The scene where the lady is running through the halls and the lights are shutting off is nearly identical to what was used later in 'The Grudge.' There was even an elevator involved in the scene, I'd bet a bundle they got the idea from THIS movie, it's so similar.
Predictable storey line
That was astonishing. I have never heard of this movie before.
Thx 4 post!
remember folks never hack into a computer or it might tun amok lol
Well apparently the 1971 COM-PU-TOR had some very strong feelings about credit card fraud.
2019 and computers are still a mystery to most people
i'd cut up the damn card if i found out the card was activated fraudulantly under a name i didnt recognize, that's after i had the bank investigate the issue that is. u cant do that now and not get it for identity theft lol.
Brilliant movie without least doubt wish the print was better.
James Stacy! So happy to see this movie.
@RealMusicKing --- us oldsters can remember when television was worth watching, and made-for-tv movies weren't such a joke.
1971 was the year I read that paper by Chandler on creating a thinking machine, or what later became known as AI. He was convinced that it was a mater of developing the right programming (i.e., software). Decades later Bill Gates believed that AI would require the invention of new hardware for computer memory storage & recall. He called this "bubble memory" that would mimic human associative memory.
In this movie the hardware couldn't have "thought" anything. It could only follow a program written by a human. So the woman's death in the elevator becomes more believable - the result of a series of at/if or if/then program statements written into the control program for the elevator.