Subj : Re: Halt and Catch Fire
To   : Moondog
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed May 11 2022 06:53:00

-=> Moondog wrote to Nightfox <=-

 Mo> It use dto air on the local PBS station back in the mid yo late 80's.
 Mo> I recall one where they had two companies reviewing their product, and
 Mo> the Korean based firm's sales rep said they were experimenting with
 Mo> joining severa l lcd panels to form larger panels.

 Gary Kildall, the co-host with the beard, is the guy who famously
 missed an appointment with IBM and missed the opportunity to
 sell CPM/86 to them for the IBM PC. 

 If memory serves, one of our local affiliates in the San Francisco
 Bay Area produced the show. I love seeing balding nerds with wire-rim
 prescription glasses in white starched shirts and tie-pins talking
 about microprocessors, micro-floppies and more effective data
 processing, reminds me of where IT came from. In Halt and Catch Fire,
 when Joe goes to work for his girlfriend's dad's company in season 2,
 it wasn't that far off.

 One of the episodes of Computer Chronicles was at CoffeeNet, an
 internet cafe before coffee shops knew what Linux or Wifi was. I
 remember seeing it back in the late '90s.

 I don't know if they ever covered SFNet, a multi-node dial-up BBS in
 San Francisco that had coin-op kiosks in coffee shops and
 laundromats. They did a lot to bring non-computer people into the
 community, especially when a lot of people didn't have home computers
 yet.






   Before then LCD
 Mo> panels were long, slender panels cpable of maybe 80x10 rows.  The sales
 Mo> guy was estatic, sying active matrix color was right around the corner,
 Mo> and large high definition TV's will put CRT's out of business.  The
 Mo> other sales guy laughed, and stated a bunch of stats about viewing
 Mo> angle, latency in twist rate of the crystals, and the computing power
 Mo> needed to multiplex all these little panels into one larger one.  The
 Mo> slaes guy form the Korean company made a remark about a difference in
 Mo> US and Asian engineering investment.  The main difference was regarding
 Mo> time span before maturity versus price.  Us firms were looking at 3-5
 Mo> years maturity versus what was possible in 10+ years. 
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