Halt and Catch Fire

[pretzel]

Anyone watching?

[GilliC]

pandce.proboards.com/thread/327568/80s-geeks

I still have a half dozen or so sitting around waiting in the wings to give it another chance. I considered watching some over the weekend, but I ended up binging on House of Cards instead.

[GilliC]

Okay, I'm through episode 6, and I've started to become more interested. I've never been a fan of embedded software, so the beginning when they're only programming the BIOS wasn't that interesting to me. Now that they're working on the OS and other higher-level software components, it's grown on me.

The sexist comments sadly remind me how little has changed in all these years. Especially since this just came out:
www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/07/23/live-tweets-sexist-remarks-ibm_n_5613278.html

My favorite part of the show is still the opening credits.

[GilliC]

I finished Season 1 yesterday. It was okay. I'll probably watch the next season, but it never pulled me in completely.

They need to type more. I love the loud report of old 80s keyboards. A colleague has one on a shelf in his office, but the one day he used it (at my encouragement) his officemates nearly killed him!