On May 27, 2014, at 7:36 PM, Kurt Hamm wrote: first episode and looked at it like the beginnings of Compaq. The legal restrictions on reverse engineering were close enough. familiar to me. I enjoyed them immensely. I loved seeing those old computers. 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? 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. about physical appearance especially related to technical competency. It is a completely subjective evaluation and has no place in this discussion. 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.