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05-29-2014, 06:33 PM
Behind 'Halt and Catch Fire': Compaq's Rise to PC Domination
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For his day job, Brian McCullough is the CEO of ResumeWriters.com (http://www.resumewriters.com/) and has founded several companies in the online careers space. He started the Internet History Podcast (http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/) as a crowd-sourced history project in February of this year. You can subscribe to the podcast here (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/internet-history-podcast/id829119009).
This Sunday, AMC is premiering a new original ****** called "Halt And Catch Fire." Set in the early 1980s, it tells the story of a band of cowboy entrepreneurs and engineers who join the PC Wars by cloning an IBM machine and taking on Big Blue for control of the nascent personal computer industry.
AMC’s show is fictional, but it turns out, there is a true life story that is similar to this course of events, and it led to the creation of one of the greatest tech**logy companies of all time, Compaq Computers. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/29/halt-and-catch-fire-amc-compaq/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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For his day job, Brian McCullough is the CEO of ResumeWriters.com (http://www.resumewriters.com/) and has founded several companies in the online careers space. He started the Internet History Podcast (http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/) as a crowd-sourced history project in February of this year. You can subscribe to the podcast here (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/internet-history-podcast/id829119009).
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AMC’s show is fictional, but it turns out, there is a true life story that is similar to this course of events, and it led to the creation of one of the greatest tech**logy companies of all time, Compaq Computers. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/29/halt-and-catch-fire-amc-compaq/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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