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Top Telly Tip... Halt and Catch Fire

sj_howlettsj_howlett
edited June 2014 in Chit chat
The series is set in the early 1980s and depicts a fictionalized insider's view of the personal computer revolution. The show's title refers to the fictitious machine code instruction Halt and Catch Fire, which would cause the computer's central processing unit to cease functioning.

The show hasn't made it to UK TV yet, so for now you can only watch via torrents.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(TV_series)
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  • slenkarslenkar
    edited June 2014
    It's set in the 80's but has modern day political correctness.
    The big computer genius is an independent woman, who has sex with whoever she wants, whenever she wants. She isn't enslaved by old fashioned morality!
    Apart from the sensationalism it is fairly enjoyable.

    Part of the fun is seeing the ex-IBM marketing guy in action, he is some genius psychopath manipulator. He can turn around the attitudes of an entire room of people he has never met so easily.

    Im no expert but I think you would need 2 PC's if you are writing a new BIOS?
    One to write and then inject the code into the other on startup.
  • sj_howlettsj_howlett
    edited June 2014
    Only 10 episodes in season one and no confirmation yet about a season two.

    I love the retro theme tune.
  • beanzbeanz
    edited June 2014
    slenkar wrote: »

    Im no expert but I think you would need 2 PC's if you are writing a new BIOS?
    One to write and then inject the code into the other on startup.

    I had a motherboard a few years back that had dual bios chips, one was a backup in case the default one died.
  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited June 2014
    not heard about this series, cheers, ill check it out
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • slenkarslenkar
    edited June 2014
    beanz wrote: »
    I had a motherboard a few years back that had dual bios chips, one was a backup in case the default one died.

    yeah that would work too,

    So you somehow make the computer startup from RAM instead of ROM and you use a battery to keep the contents of the RAM while you restart the PC I guess?
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