All I can say is WOW!
Sound quality was unusable on this machine, but at least it had closed
captions.
In August 1981, IBM released the PC, with schematics and source code for
the BIOS. Even I had a copy of the "Technical Reference Manual" before
the end of the year.
In 1983, these guys, . . .
"We don't know which chip the BIOS is on"
using hardware and "write these numbers down" to look at the BIOS?
By 1983, even I had an EPROM programmer, not to mention, the trivial ease
with DEBUG or simple code, to COPY the BIOS to a file, or disassemble it
in situ.
IBM is already suing them before they start??
The lawyers looked like lawyers, but they did not look like 1983 IBM
lawyers. (hint: when IBM came up the walkway on Lighthouse St., some DRI
people thought that it might be a drug raid.)
Won't it be fun when they get to an episode where they INVENT
inter-computer file transfers?