Halt and Catch Fire Tonight

On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, ethan at 757.org wrote: Really? In 1981, instead of buying a copy of the PUBLISHED schematics and BIOS source code for $40 or disassembling in DEBUG or in BASIC, one had to read out binary in LEDs to see the ROM contents, and worry about IBM doing DMCA prosecution for reverse-engineering? Isn't it wonderful that we have such excellent accurate history of well publicized events of the time, from this show and "Pirates Of The Valley" (with billg cold-calling IBM to sell them on having an OS)? It must have been incredibly difficult for the producers to find ANY technical advisors who were around in those days! They should have just come to us! We could have explained to them that FORTRAN was based on Valtrep, that Englebart got his ideas from his Mac, that the 5100 holds the key to surviving the ultimate crash in 2038, the arpanet was invented to get access to FACEBOOK and to the porn that was already on WWW, and that Jobs invented the computer in order to create a market for billg's invention of the OS!