little_old_man Posted June 10, 2014 Member ID: 1194 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 436 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 6692 Content Per Day: 1.20 Reputation: 11691 Achievement Points: 53094 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 76 Joined: 02/27/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 16, 2023 Birthday: 04/15/1960 Posted June 10, 2014 For you geeks out there that find the early days of the computer revolution interesting, there is a new show on AMC that promises to entertain. Halt and Catch fire premiered on June 1st and so far I have thoroughly enjoyed the first two episodes. It takes place in 1983 and is about a group of people who are trying to break into the PC market by reverse engineering an IBM operating system to help develop their own OS. It is now well known that Apple, Microsoft and other start up companies routinely stole from others to create their own products, so this show is loosly based on historical facts. If you have a couple free hours check out the first two episodes at http://www.amctv.com/full-episodes/halt-and-catch-fire/3595861397001/i-o Awards
eidolonFIRE Posted June 10, 2014 Member ID: 2759 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 17 Topic Count: 199 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3496 Content Per Day: 0.70 Reputation: 3021 Achievement Points: 26464 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 08/22/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 16, 2017 Birthday: 07/27/1990 Posted June 10, 2014 as a computer engineer... this is fascinating Thanks for the share LOM.
TBB Posted June 10, 2014 Member ID: 989 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 25 Topic Count: 290 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 20511 Content Per Day: 3.66 Reputation: 22519 Achievement Points: 148075 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 395 Joined: 01/07/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 4 hours ago Birthday: 01/27/1946 Device: Windows Posted June 10, 2014 OK LOM - cut the crap - that's twice this month you've been useful - keep this up and your tags may tarnish! little_old_man 1 Awards
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