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Halt and Catch Fire 

The series is set roughly one year after IBM all but corners the market with the release of its first major product – the IBM PC. It is also the same year people realize the IBM PC’s fatal flaw, which quickly makes personal computing anyone’s game. In this fictional drama, a former IBM executive, Joe McMillan plans to reverse engineer the flagship product of his former employer, he forces his current company, Cardiff Electric, into the personal computer race. McMillan enlists the help of Gordon Clark, a once great engineer who dreams of creating a revolutionary product while trying to manage his initially unsupportive wife Donna, and Cameron Howe, a volatile prodigy who puts her future in jeopardy to join MacMillan’s rogue PC project.

Halt and Catch Fire - 1.01 

'I/O" Sunday Jun 1, 2014 at 10 p.m. AMC

A visionary, an engineer and a prodigy chart the changing culture of Texas' Silicon Prairie in the 1980s.

Original Title: Halt and Catch Fire

Country, Channel: USA, AMC

Release Date: June 1, 2014

Genres: Drama

Episode Order: 10

Runtime: 60 min

Language: English

Creators: Christopher Cantwell, Christopher C. Rogers

Cast: Lee Pace as Joe MacMillan, Scoot McNairy as Gordon Clark, Mackenzie Davis as Cameron Howe, Kerry Bishé as Donna Clark, Toby Huss as John Bosworth