Posted on 06/10/2014 5:13:00 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Oscilloscopes! Hexadecimal code! 1980s Porsches! This is the world of AMCs newest period piece, Halt and Catch Fire, which debuted June 1 (watch the full pilot episode here). The networks next great hope for another Mad Men or Breaking Bad, Halt dives deep into the nerdy early days of the PC, hoping Sunday night TV viewers will go as gaga for Big Blue as they did for Blue Sky.
The show transports us back to a fictional 1983, when personal computing was booming in Texas Silicon Prairie. We follow a slick visionary, a schmuck engineer, and a wonder-kid coder as they team up to infiltrate and subvert that world.
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“Pretty sobering that the 1980s have become the old days.”
Man, you think that is sobering. I was fixing NCR’s J/K flip-flops by replacing diods and transistors in the ‘60s. I remember when going from “or/and” gates to “nor/nan” gates was “revolutionary”. NCR even tried rod memory instead of donuts. Been quite a ride.
Ha ha! Your response was to a non-techie old lady who is lucky she knows the difference between hard drive and a hard sell.
When Lee Pace started making out with that dude, I deleted the series from my DVR. No thanks.
Someone mentioned Fargo. It’s one of the few shows I will buy on Blu-Ray when it comes out. Great show.
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