Subj : Halt and Catch Fire
To   : Kaelon
From : Moondog
Date : Sun May 01 2022 23:55:00

  Re: Halt and Catch Fire
  By: Kaelon to All on Sun May 01 2022 02:54 pm

 > There's a fantastic TV series, "Halt and Catch Fire," a period drama about t
 >  and is really well done.
 > 
 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(TV_series)
 > 
 > Given how much many of us grew up with BBS'es and personal computers in the 
 > 
 > Has anyone else here seen it? What do you think about the show?
 > -=- Kaelon -=-
 > 

A friend used to work for Heathkit back in the 70's and early 80's and he
said Halt and Catch Fire captured the feel of what it was like in th efirst
season.  In the days of the H-8 and H89 before Zenith electronics boughth
them to create Zenith Data Systems, it was common to go to a computer trade
show and see Jobs and Woz and other soon to be big named people looking at
their products.  Bill Gates and Paul Allen flew in several times after DOS
was adopted by IBM, and ZDS made a couple of portable machines with DOS on a
ROM to boot faster without tieing up the floppy drive.

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