alt Hacker NewsYeah, agreed. Watching it as a drama, it’s fun. Watching it with any perspective on tech history it gets a little cringy.
The first season is semi-accurate if you just replace Compaq with their company. But it quickly goes off the rails.
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kQq9oHeAz6wLLS • today at 5:26 AM
I lost interest in the second season. S1 was great, though.
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Of course Compaq was Houston rather than DFW. The case design for the first portable was scribbled on the back of a paper placemat at the House of Pies diner on Westheimer.
They still could have had Donna working at TI, which has a presence there.