3 Jun
2014
3 Jun
'14
7:46 a.m.
Oh yeah... one other point, props to the show writer for actually
acknowledging that other companies besides IBM and Apple existed in the
early days of personal computing. That was a refreshing change.
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Geoff Oltmans <oltmansg at gmail.com> wrote:
On May 27, 2014, at 7:36 PM, Kurt Hamm wrote:
I was there in the late 70s and early 80s. I
absolutely enjoyed the
first episode and looked at it like the beginnings of
Compaq. The legal
restrictions on reverse engineering were close enough.
The sets and wardrobe were obviously well thought out and seemed
familiar to me. I
enjoyed them immensely. I loved seeing those old
computers.
This is a great opportunity to engage an audience outside of our close
knit
community. So many people lived through the time if not as profoundly
as we did. How can this show be a bad thing for us?
Sellam continues to be a prick about anything related to what he feels
is his
claim to computer history. I see his post as fishing for some piece
of the action. It included a plea for the producers to call him and
smacked of sour grapes for not being consulted.
For my part, I am disgusted by anyone who would make a value judgement
about
physical appearance especially related to technical competency. It is
a completely subjective evaluation and has no place in this discussion.
We should relax and enjoy the first major impetus for remembering and
collecting
this past.
I thought it was pretty decent as far as pilots go. I figured the company
was modeled after Compaq (with maybe a hint of Dell). The treatment on
reverse engineering as you point out too was somewhat surprising.
Spoiler Alert!
The only issue I really had overall from the episode was the dramatization
of dumping the BIOS contents. They either would have either dumped the
contents in place with a program or read them out in an EEPROM reader,
certainly no hand transcribing (or, just getting the tech reference guide).
But, I guess their dramatization was a little more interesting than popping
a chip out and sticking it in another machine.