Dobb’s Turbo Toolbook” on making low-level system calls from Turbo Pascal routines - hooking into the machine’s interrupts, essentially - on the MPC. In 1985-86, I even wrote a chapter of “Dr. I can’t speak for the first 1,230 Columbia MPC 1600-1s shipped - but I know #1,231 ran every piece of IBM PC software I threw at it flawlessly - including some internal IBM apps my father-in-law brought over just to see if they’d run. Were there issues with compatibility for the CDP? Possibly at first, but certainly by the time Compaq finally had a system out, the Columbia was every bit as compatible. Yes, Columbia Data Products had a compatible PC out with a clean-room BIOS *before* Compaq even began their project. I was pretty amused by Rod Canion’s revisionist history of the IBM compatible. There’s more great tech history where that came from… Subscribe to the Internet History Podcast: But that should be a good thing overall for the show. So, like I said in the episode, it’s “loosely” based. Maybe the company they supercharge is a bit like Compaq. Maybe they become the young upstarts like Dell. In a similar way, HACF can tell an early 80s tech story that touches on real things, real people (maybe a Steve Jobs or a Bill Gates shows up now and then) but it can also create it’s own history. Mad Men touches on real brands and real companies, but it is not, and has never claimed to be a history of Madison Avenue. The showrunners and creators can create a quasi-fictional world, just like Mad Men has. (Ok, I’ll grant that a show about Larry Ellison’s life would be insanely great.) So is Halt And Catch Fire Based On a True Story? And by going a bit off the reservation (show NOT set in Silicon Valley little known corner of tech history) the creators can carve themselves out something interesting here.Īfter all, who would really care about the fictionalized story of the creation of Oracle? Or Dell. It seems to me that those ARE some good ingredients to work with. So, put Mad Men, The Social Network and 80s nostalgia in a blender and here you go. My take? It sounds like the people behind the show heard some stories about the “Silicon Prairie” era we mentioned on the podcast, and rightfully (in my opinion, natch) thought that tech history is a hot topic right now. Well, you should probably read this article which goes into depth outlining the show’s creation.Īnd if you haven’t listened to the episode yet, here you go… Do I think this show will actually follow the real story or not? On the Veracity of AMC’s Halt and Catch FireĮver since I posted my episode last week interviewing Rod Canion with the truth behind the Halt And Catch Fire story people have been tweet-mailing me asking for more details.
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