2 Jun
2014
2 Jun
'14
8:03 p.m.
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.