ep.1 I/O
时长:00:47:44 / 首播:2014-06-01
In 1983 in Dallas, Texas, Joe MacMillan, a key player in the debut of the IBM Personal Computer, asks college students if they have experience in several computing categories. After he mentions very-large-scale integration, Cameron Howe challenges his knowledge of the concept because he didn't refer to it as "VLSI". After drinking together later at a bar, Joe and Cameron begin to have sex, but she rebuffs him when Joe says this won't secure her a job. Later, at Cardiff Electric, a system software company, John Bosworth hires Joe, but warns him that they are not competing with IBM and are merely selling software. Gordon Clark accompanies Joe on a sales call, and Joe blames Gordon when the sale falls through. Joe later shows Gordon the issue of Byte magazine, in which Gordon wrote about the untapped potential of computers, and asks him to help reverse-engineer an IBM PC. Gordon is able to isolate the BIOS chip and recreate the assembly language code. Dale Butler, SVP of Sales at IBM, tells Bosworth that Joe left IBM under mysterious circumstances a year ago, adding IBM knows about the reverse-engineering project and the two companies now have a serious problem. Meanwhile, Joe and Gordon convince Cameron to join the project. IBM's legal team arrives at Cardiff's offices.
In 1983 in Dallas, Texas, Joe MacMillan, a key player in the debut of the IBM Personal Computer, asks college students if they have experience in several computing categories. After he mentions very-large-scale integration, Cameron Howe challenges his knowledge of the concept because he didn't refer to it as "VLSI". After drinking together later at a bar, Joe and Cameron begin to have sex, but she rebuffs him when Joe says this won't secure her a job. Later, at Cardiff Electric, a system software company, John Bosworth hires Joe, but warns him that they are not competing with IBM and are merely selling software. Gordon Clark accompanies Joe on a sales call, and Joe blames Gordon when the sale falls through. Joe later shows Gordon the issue of Byte magazine, in which Gordon wrote about the untapped potential of computers, and asks him to help reverse-engineer an IBM PC. Gordon is able to isolate the BIOS chip and recreate the assembly language code. Dale Butler, SVP of Sales at IBM, tells Bosworth that Joe left IBM under mysterious circumstances a year ago, adding IBM knows about the reverse-engineering project and the two companies now have a serious problem. Meanwhile, Joe and Gordon convince Cameron to join the project. IBM's legal team arrives at Cardiff's offices.
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