I dragged myself through episode 3 (1st season). There was stuff in there that
seemed unnecessary and a bit of a distraction.
There is a lot of stuff like, too. IIRC, it almost did not come back for a second season.
I think it was in episode 2 that the ex-IBM guy convinces the engineer to use h
s 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 ap
rtment, 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.
If I remember right, it makes sense later.
The production values feel like a low-budget Canadian series. I can look past >hat and focus on the tech/engineering elements. I read that things pick up nic
ly in ep 4 and onward.
Yes, it does do that. It may have been a partially Canadian production,
come to think of it. A lot of the US cable shows are.
Except for using the early unix-based networked computers on campus, my first u
e of a PC was a genuine IBM PC in my first professional job in 1993. But even >here, I primarily worked with a DEC VAX 11 machine. I had a shared terminal pa
ked 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" th
ir report programs when they needed a special feature.
I got an 8088 XT clone around Christmas, 1987. My first on the job
experience with computers would have come about a year later, working in a library, with some terminal system that ran on who knows what. :)
A couple years later, I had a 286/AT AMD based. I started goofing around with >RBBS BBS software on that.
RBBS is supposedly open source now (may have been then, too). I have
thought about playing around with it some one day, but never seem to get
around to it.
Mike
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