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   On 5/10/2020 6:51 PM, between "Mike Powell : AUGUST ABOLINS":   
      
    MP> Yes, I enjoyed it... the episodes about the technical stuff   
    MP> more than some of the others that get more into the   
    MP> interpersonal stuff. That is also good TV but I really got   
    MP> into their push to build a PC and some of their later   
    MP> endeavors.   
      
   I dragged myself through episode 3 (1st season).  There was stuff in there   
   that seemed unnecessary and a bit of a distraction.   
      
   I think it was in episode 2 that the ex-IBM guy convinces the engineer to use   
   his own money to buy the computer equipment for reverse engineering. I found   
   that unrealistic.  The ex-IBM guy is surely still quite wealthy (fancy car,   
   fancy apartment, fancy clothes, etc..) Yet, it is the family-man who has to   
   come up with the money for the computer equipment? That made little sense.   
      
   The production values feel like a low-budget Canadian series.  I can look past   
   that and focus on the tech/engineering elements.  I read that things pick up   
   nicely in ep 4 and onward.   
      
   Except for using the early unix-based networked computers on campus, my first   
   use of a PC was a genuine IBM PC in my first professional job in 1993.  But   
   even there, I primarily worked with a DEC VAX 11 machine.  I had a shared   
   terminal parked just outside my cubicle intended to be split between 5   
   people.  Honestly, I can't remember what I needed to use it for except to   
   lookup or print some basic reports based on parts inventory.  Boring!  But I   
   did help some people "fix" their report programs when they needed a special   
   feature.   
      
   A couple years later, I had a 286/AT AMD based.  I started goofing around with   
   RBBS BBS software on that.   
      
   But I digress..   
      
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