Originally I thought it was basing it on Comnet or Compuserve but after reading these comments, I now think Quantum Link makes more sense. They are doing a good job portraying the various personalities, especially the disfunctional ones. On Oct 25, 2015 7:38 PM, "Fred Cisin" <ci...@xenosoft.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Oct 2015, et...@757.org wrote: > >> There is a television show running on television now called "Halt and >> catch fire" and I think they are basing it around Quantum Link as part of >> the story. It's not historical but a period drama or something. >> > > and Compaq? > > I liked the part about IBM suing them for disassembly of the BIOS! > and the hardware approach to how to read the content of the BIOS. > (on a functioning machine with DEBUG.COM) > Admittedly, it was more than a month after the announcement of the 5150 > before I could buy a copy of the Technical Reference Manual, which had > source code of the BIOS. > > > You can learn a lot about the details of history from it. > >
