Halt and Catch Fire (TV-serie)

"Halt and Catch Fire is set roughly one year after IBM all but corners the market with the release of its first major product – the IBM PC. In this fictional drama, a former IBM executive, Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace) plans to reverse engineer the flagship product of his former employer and forces his current company, Cardiff Electric, into the personal computer race. MacMillan enlists the help of Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy), a great engineer whose unrealized dreams of creating a revolutionary product have created tension in his marriage to Donna (Kerry Bishé), and Cameron Howe (Mackenzie Davis), a volatile prodigy who puts her future in jeopardy to join MacMillan's rogue PC project. Halt and Catch Fire thrives on the spirit of innovation and explores what it's like to stand at the forefront of something world-changing and work towards it, no matter the risk."

"Set in the early 1980s, series dramatizes the personal computing boom through the eyes of a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy whose innovations directly confront the corporate behemoths of the time. Their personal and professional partnership will be challenged by greed and ego while charting the changing culture in Texas' Silicon Prairie."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543312/

http://www.tv.com/shows/halt-and-catch-fire/

http://www.amctv.com/shows/halt-and-catch-fire

Detta är alltså en amerikansk AMC-serie som hade premiär 2014. Kortfattat så utspelar sig serien under det tidiga 80-talet i Texas, där en osannolik trio beståendes av en marknadsvisionär från New York, en rebellisk kvinnlig och självlärd kodningsguru och en utbränd och apatisk medelålders ingenjör - försöker förändra en PC-marknad som då dominerades utav IBM.

Som en person som vuxit upp under 80-talet med hemdatorer så känner jag igen väldigt mycket i serien. Rekommenderas starkt till alla med ett intresse för denna eras PC-boom!