On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Sellam ibn Abraham
<sellam at vintagetech.com>wrote:
I watched about 3 minutes. Pure garbage.
Halt and Catch Fire is not a real computer instruction that caused a race
condition that made the computer stop working. I imagine a bunch of
teenagers are scouring Intel technical manuals looking for the Code 2 Duo
equivalent of HCF.
No one looked, acted, or talked like that back in the early 1980s (I
remember, I was there). Especially not IBM sales people.
If you could find a chick anywhere that looked 1/4 as cute as the chick in
the opening scene and who knew as much about computers, you were either in
the future, watching a bad 2014 television drama, or you were someplace
private by yourself with your pants down lost in your imagination.
I'm sure I could come up with more criticisms if I could deaden my senses
enough without taking out critical life functions to watch the rest.
Unfortunately, this program was designed for the braindead, technically
illiterate cultural group that comprises television watchers generally.
Next thing you're gonna tell me is that travel through time and space is
preposterous and there's no blue box that can do it.