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Halt and Catch Fire is an excellent show. I wish Apple would make a similar show about the first Macintosh. There’s plenty of material on folklore.org for a goo
by vimy 6y ago
Halt and Catch Fire is an excellent show. I wish Apple would make a similar show about the first Macintosh. There’s plenty of material on folklore.org for a good story.
- thirtyseven 6y agoDo you trust Apple to make such a show without making it a hagiography?
- Apocryphon 6y agoA hackiography, surely.
- taneq 6y agoFolklore.org is such a wonderful read, I'd love to see a faithful TV adaptation. I also really enjoyed Accidental Empires (which was later made into a documentary, Triumph of the Nerds).
- the_af 6y agoHave you watched the (pretty good) documentary "General Magic"? If features a lot of the same people than folklore.org, to the point one could consider it an Apple "side story", though there are also future Googlers and people who built Android. Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTdyb-RWNKo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTdyb-RWNKo I found it interesting. There is a bit of hagiography going on, though (and note the trailer seems way more antagonistic towards Sculley than the documentary actually is.) One thing I found striking is that none of these people seem to need or care about money. They say so explicitly, "we didn't care about the money", and that it was all about the vision and passion. Yet somehow they managed to remain clothed and well fed. If that's not the definition of privilege, I don't know what is!