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Set in the [[UsefulNotes/ComputerWars tech revolution]] of The80s, it is the story of former IBM sales executive Joe [=MacMillan=], hardware engineer Gordon Clark, young prodigy software programmer Cameron Howe, and Gordon's wife and fellow engineer Donna Clark.
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Set in the [[UsefulNotes/ComputerWars [[MediaNotes/ComputerWars tech revolution]] of The80s, it is the story of former IBM sales executive Joe [=MacMillan=], hardware engineer Gordon Clark, young prodigy software programmer Cameron Howe, and Gordon's wife and fellow engineer Donna Clark.
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Set in the [[UsefulNotes/ComputerWars tech revolution]] of TheEighties, it is the story of former IBM sales executive Joe [=MacMillan=], hardware engineer Gordon Clark, young prodigy software programmer Cameron Howe, and Gordon's wife and fellow engineer Donna Clark.
In the first season, set in [[TheEighties 1983]], Joe, Gordon, and Cameron, as employees of a small [[UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex Dallas-based]] system software firm called Cardiff Electric, set out to create a revolutionary [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer IBM PC clone]] which is smaller, faster, more powerful, and more affordable than the original. While designing the machine, the team must deal with the tension of their personal and professional issues as well as the threat of the machine never making it to market.
In the first season, set in [[TheEighties 1983]], Joe, Gordon, and Cameron, as employees of a small [[UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex Dallas-based]] system software firm called Cardiff Electric, set out to create a revolutionary [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer IBM PC clone]] which is smaller, faster, more powerful, and more affordable than the original. While designing the machine, the team must deal with the tension of their personal and professional issues as well as the threat of the machine never making it to market.
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Set in the [[UsefulNotes/ComputerWars tech revolution]] of TheEighties, The80s, it is the story of former IBM sales executive Joe [=MacMillan=], hardware engineer Gordon Clark, young prodigy software programmer Cameron Howe, and Gordon's wife and fellow engineer Donna Clark.
In the first season, set in[[TheEighties [[The80s 1983]], Joe, Gordon, and Cameron, as employees of a small [[UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex Dallas-based]] system software firm called Cardiff Electric, set out to create a revolutionary [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer [[Platform/IBMPersonalComputer IBM PC clone]] which is smaller, faster, more powerful, and more affordable than the original. While designing the machine, the team must deal with the tension of their personal and professional issues as well as the threat of the machine never making it to market.
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The [[http://www.amc.com/shows/halt-and-catch-fire/talk/2016/10/halt-and-catch-fire-renewed-for-fourth-and-final-season fourth and final season]] saw a time shift to TheNineties The90s and a focus on the advent of TheInternet.
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* The70s: As with ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'', the first season of the series shows how '70s fashion and culture hung on into the early '80s, such as the Clarks' home decor, Gordon's taste in music and Cardiff Electric being based around mainframe computers.
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** In-universe, Donna and her then-boss Hunt were responsible for Texas Instruments dropping the UsefulNotes/TI99.
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** The episode "Goodwill" begins and ends with a flashback of Gordon and Donna in [[TheSeventies 1976]] during the early days of their marriage after Joanie was born.
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** While exploring the COMDEX show floor before the Giant demo, Cameron thinks that [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Windows]] looks cool, but Donna tells her it was crawling with bugs, and Joe was impressed with HP's "touch screen" technology, but Gordon calls it a fad.
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** While exploring the COMDEX show floor before the Giant demo, Cameron thinks that [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows [[Platform/MicrosoftWindows Windows]] looks cool, but Donna tells her it was crawling with bugs, and Joe was impressed with HP's "touch screen" technology, but Gordon calls it a fad.
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** Donna and Hunt finally convince TI management that the UsefulNotes/TI99 is a lost cause, though Hunt says that the company has been thinking of dropping it for months.
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* PacManFever: Justified, since the series takes place in UsefulNotes/TheEighties, and later UsefulNotes/TheNineties. Unlike most examples of this trope, the games' actual graphics and sound effects are used.
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* PacManFever: Justified, since the series takes place in UsefulNotes/TheEighties, UsefulNotes/The80s, and later UsefulNotes/TheNineties.UsefulNotes/The90s. Unlike most examples of this trope, the games' actual graphics and sound effects are used.
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** In the flashback scene of "SETI", Joe and Cameron play a round of ''Indy 500'' on an UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}}. Also, the Mutiny crew have a rather extensive collection of Atari 2600 games.
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** "Giant" takes place sometime between September and early October 1983, as TI had announced it would drop the UsefulNotes/TI99 and exit the home computer business in October 1983.
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** "Giant" takes place sometime between September and early October 1983, as TI had announced it would drop the UsefulNotes/TI99 Platform/TI99 and exit the home computer business in October 1983.
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* PlatoIsAMoron: Gordon calls UsefulNotes/SteveJobs a "megalomaniac who loves form over function", referring to the UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh in the Season 1 finale and the [=NeXTcube=] in the Season 3 finale.
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* PlatoIsAMoron: Gordon calls UsefulNotes/SteveJobs a "megalomaniac who loves form over function", referring to the UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh Platform/AppleMacintosh in the Season 1 finale and the [=NeXTcube=] in the Season 3 finale.
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** Besides IBM, many real-world computer hardware and software companies of the 80s and early 90s are mentioned, including [[UsefulNotes/TI99 Texas Instruments]], [[UsefulNotes/AppleII Apple]], [[UsefulNotes/{{Commodore64}} Commodore]], [[UsefulNotes/TRS80 Tandy]], Microsoft, Digital Research[[note]]creators of the CP/M operating system, from which MS-DOS was derived[[/note]], Columbia Data[[note]]creators of the first IBM PC clone[[/note]], Compaq, Intel, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Xerox, Hewlett Packard, Creator/{{Atari}}, Coleco, Electronic Data Systems (EDS), [=CompuServe=], Oracle, Cisco Systems, [=NeXT=], America Online, Netscape and Yahoo.
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** Besides IBM, many real-world computer hardware and software companies of the 80s and early 90s are mentioned, including [[UsefulNotes/TI99 [[Platform/TI99 Texas Instruments]], [[UsefulNotes/AppleII [[Platform/AppleII Apple]], [[UsefulNotes/{{Commodore64}} [[Platform/{{Commodore64}} Commodore]], [[UsefulNotes/TRS80 [[Platform/TRS80 Tandy]], Microsoft, Digital Research[[note]]creators of the CP/M operating system, from which MS-DOS was derived[[/note]], Columbia Data[[note]]creators of the first IBM PC clone[[/note]], Compaq, Intel, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Xerox, Hewlett Packard, Creator/{{Atari}}, Coleco, Electronic Data Systems (EDS), [=CompuServe=], Oracle, Cisco Systems, [=NeXT=], America Online, Netscape and Yahoo.
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** In "Extract and Defend", Gary brought home a prototype UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem from his latest visit to Japan; Haley and Joanie play ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' on the system. Also, the Mutiny coders watch ''Film/TheTerminator'' on VHS.
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** In "Extract and Defend", Gary brought home a prototype UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem from his latest visit to Japan; Haley and Joanie play ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' on the system. Also, the Mutiny coders watch ''Film/TheTerminator'' on VHS.
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* TheSeventies: As with ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'', the first season of the series shows how '70s fashion and culture hung on into the early '80s, such as the Clarks' home decor, Gordon's taste in music and Cardiff Electric being based around mainframe computers.
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** "One Way or Another" is named for the song by Music/{{Blondie}}.
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** "One Way or Another" is named for the song by Music/{{Blondie}}.Music/{{Blondie|Band}}.
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* ProchronicProduct: One episode sees the crew at Mutiny create a functional broadband network in the late 1980s, whereas in real life, broadband did not become widely available until a decade later.
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* DrinkBasedCharacterization: After IBM raids all of Cardiff's customers in season 1, Joe starts talking to venture capitalists despite Bosworth's misgiving. John eventually sets up a meeting with Nathan Cardiff to talk money, and Bosworth gets them all drinks. [[RatedMForManly Scotch whiskey]] for Boz and Cardiff, but his "guess" for Joe? [[WineIsClassy White wine]].
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* DrinkBasedCharacterization: After IBM raids all of Cardiff's customers in season 1, Joe starts talking to venture capitalists despite Bosworth's misgiving. John eventually sets up a meeting with Nathan Cardiff to talk money, and Bosworth gets them all drinks. [[RatedMForManly Scotch whiskey]] whiskey for Boz and Cardiff, but his "guess" for Joe? [[WineIsClassy White wine]].
