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I would guess some of these minor "goofs" while maintaining impressive accuracy elsewhere are intentional easter-eggs for people like us to discover and discuss
by ido 4y ago
I would guess some of these minor "goofs" while maintaining impressive accuracy elsewhere are intentional easter-eggs for people like us to discover and discuss! One example I liked from Halt and Catch Fire (a show with incredible accuracy of contemporary computer tech otherwise), when Donna uses a 286 PC in 1990 to run Windows 3.0 the boot sequence is showing 64mb RAM installed (the 80286 could only access maximum 16mb).
- JoachimS 4y agoIf you want that level of accuracy, the 80286 could actually handle 16 MByte, not 16 millibit.
- rep_lodsb 4y agoIn the very first episode they dump IBM's ROM chip - by wiring it to LEDs and then spending the entire night writing down bits on paper! Could have written a BASIC program on the machine itself to do it. A later one from season 1 had the 32-bit EFLAGS register layout on a whiteboard in the background, years before the 80386 came out.