![]() ![]() While attempting to recover the data off Cameron's burned out hard drive, Donna and the Cardiff engineers should have been handling the platters in a dust-free clean room environment instead of out in the open in Cameron's basement "office" in "Close to the Metal". Dust and contaminants will easily ruin a hard drive and its stored data.Also, Gordon desolders a socketed ROM chip. ![]() Gordon and Joe use a bunch of equipment to access the IBM PC BIOS when a few simple commands would suffice.Gordon bails Donna out from the drunk tank, and Donna is devastated by Gordon's death in Season 4. Amicable Exes: Gordon and Donna still seem to care for each other despite being divorced in the Season 3 finale.Anachronistic Soundtrack: While most of the soundtrack sticks to songs appropriate to the period, some modern songs are used, such as Suuns' " 2020 ", which plays as Joe immolates the first shipment of Giants in the Season 1 finale.At the end of the series, Comet admits defeat when Yahoo is shown as the default web search engine for Netscape.Joe and Gordon recognize that by sacrificing some of Cameron's innovative features they can outperform the Slingshot and thus win over the buyers. Subverted with the Slingshot computer which is generally inferior to the Giant except that due to having fewer features it is also slightly faster and cheaper.only for Joe to recognize that the Apple Macintosh is a better product the second he sees it. The problem confronting the Cardiff crew, obsessing over beating IBM.In "Up Helly Aa", while the Giant was still malfunctioning during Cardiff's suite party, Joe distracts the drunken COMDEX attendees with booth babes from the neighboring PORNDEX convention, which is a real-life event focused on pornography related consumer products.In "Giant", Kenny Burke, a local industrial designer Bosworth had previously hired, insults Joe for not paying attention to the girls at a strip club.In "Adventure", after Cameron names her BIOS "Lovelace", the engineers assumed she was talking about pornographic actress Linda Lovelace.Thereafter, she politely declines all offers of alcohol. She eventually gets a DUI, leading to Gordon picking her up from the drunk tank, and is forced into AA. In season 4, Donna slowly starts to become a Lady Drunk due to the stress of her job.Gordon is introduced with Donna picking him up from what is implied to be a repeat visit to the drunk tank.After returning from Japan as a famous game designer, she decides to buy an empty field and live out of a trailer that her boyfriend barely fits inside. At Mutiny, she lives at the dilapidated hacker den out of which the company is run and wears clothes that are literally falling apart. Even after getting a job at Cardiff at a good wage, she lives in her office until she has to be told to get her own place. Affluent Ascetic: Cameron is never interested in worldly possessions or luxury.Aleska Palladino was added to the main cast for some reason, despite being a nothing more than a Satellite Love Interest to Joe, and she is Put on a Bus, presumably never to be seen again, at the end of the season. Advertised Extra: Sara Wheeler in Season 2.They're the thing that gets us to the thing: The fourth and final season saw a time shift to The '90s and a focus on the advent of The Internet. Season 3 saw the Mutiny crew seeking a fresh slate in California's Silicon Valley, hoping to become the next big thing. She and Donna faced threats, both new and familiar, which could have been the company's undoing. Season 2 took place one year after the events of the finale of Season 1, mainly focusing on Cameron's startup company, Mutiny. While designing the machine, the team must deal with the tension of their personal and professional issues as well as the threat of the machine never making it to market. In the first season, set in 1983, Joe, Gordon, and Cameron, as employees of a small Dallas-based system software firm called Cardiff Electric, set out to create a revolutionary IBM PC clone which is smaller, faster, more powerful, and more affordable than the original. Set in the tech revolution of The '80s, it is the story of former IBM sales executive Joe MacMillan, hardware engineer Gordon Clark, young prodigy software programmer Cameron Howe, and Gordon's wife and fellow engineer Donna Clark. Halt and Catch Fire is an American television series that aired on AMC from 2014 to 2017. ![]()
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