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  1. www.internethistorypodcast.com › 2014 › 05The Incredible True Story Behind AMC’s Halt And Catch Fire ...

    May 26, 2014 · This Sunday, AMC is premiering a new original series called Halt And Catch Fire. Set in the early 1980s, it tells the story of a band of cowboy entrepreneurs and engineers who join the PC Wars by cloning an IBM machine and taking on Big Blue for control of the nascent personal computer industry.

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    Jul 23, 2014 · Set in the early 1980s, it tells the story of a band of cowboy entrepreneurs and engineers who join the PC Wars by cloning an IBM machine and taking on Big Blue for control of the nascent...

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  5. www.mentalfloss.com › article › 8477413 Explosive Facts About Halt and Catch Fire - Mental Floss

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    • IT WAS CREATED BY DISNEY MARKETERS. James Minchin/AMC. Christopher Cantwell was a marketing executive who came up with the viral Toy Story 3 promo of a fake Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear YouTube upload.
    • THEY SET IT IN TEXAS BECAUSE THE AREA WASN'T "EXPLOITED." “We wanted to find the place you didn’t know," Cantwell explained. " Silicon Valley, Boston, New York, IBM, Microsoft, all those stories and companies have been exploited dramatically to great effect.”
    • THE SHOW'S TITLE IS A PC COMMAND. "Halt and Catch Fire," or "HCF," was originally a fictitious machine code that would make a machine's CPU self-destruct.
    • THE CAST AND CREW DID A LOT OF READING TO PREPARE. The writing staff. read Tracy Kidder's 1981 nonfiction book The Soul of a New Machine, which documented a computer engineering team's attempt to build a new computer, and watched documentaries like Triumph of the Nerds.

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    Set in the early 1980s, it tells the story of a band of cowboy entrepreneurs and engineers who join the PC Wars by cloning an IBM machine and taking on Big Blue for control of the nascent...

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(TVHalt and Catch Fire (TV series) - Wikipedia

    Halt and Catch Fire is an American period drama television series created by Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers. It aired on the cable network AMC in the United States from June 1, 2014, to October 14, 2017, spanning four seasons and 40 episodes.

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  8. www.wired.com › story › halt-and-catch-fire-finaleThe Radical Message of 'Halt and Catch Fire' | WIRED

    Oct 17, 2017 · This is Halt and Catch Fire’s most radical message, the one the tech industry would do well to heed as the online world grows more toxic and depersonalized with every passing day....

  9. www.internethistorypodcast.com › 2014 › 06Is Halt And Catch Fire A True Story? - Internet History Podcast

    Jun 4, 2014 · The Incredible True Story Behind AMC’s Halt And Catch Fire – How Compaq Cloned IBM And Created An Empire

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