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《奔腾年代》教学大纲：一份技术史阅读清单
Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus
2021 — 2025，它一次次回到首页
黑点是上首页（≥ 50 分）的那次投稿，空心点是没冲上去的投稿，点越大分数越高。
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这是为美剧《奔腾年代》(Halt and Catch Fire) 编写的一份配套教学大纲，系统整理了与剧中 80-90 年代计算机行业历史相关的阅读和资源。即使不追剧，它也是了解那个时代计算史的优秀资料集。
为什么经久不衰：它把一部口碑剧集变成了一份经过时间检验的计算机史学习指南，对想了解 80-90 年代个人电脑与早期互联网时代的人来说至今仍是绝佳入口。
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剧集聚焦失败的小公司而非赢家，因此比乔布斯传记片更真实地呈现了计算史
这套资源对任何对 80、90 年代计算史感兴趣的人来说都极为出色，即使不打算看剧也值得收藏（虽然剧本身也值得看！）。我真希望当年教技术史时有它。这部剧最明智的决定是把故事设定在一批虚构的小公司和初创企业上——它们在计算机革命的战壕里挣扎，始终没能做大。这避免了目的论的陷阱，让人感受到历史本可能轻易走向另一条路。这也是为什么它作为计算史和戏剧，都比那些反复翻炒苹果和乔布斯赢家故事的电影好得多。
libraryofbabel查看英文原文
This is a superb set of resources for anyone interested in the history of computing in the 80s and 90s. I'd go so far as to say it's great even if you don't intend to watch the show (although you should!). I wish this had existed back when I was teaching history of technology. One of the best decisions the show made was to set the series at a series of fictitious minor companies and startups struggling down there in the trenches of the computer revolution without ever quite making it big. This avoids the trap of teleology and gives you a sense of how things could easily have turned out differently. It is why the show is so much better as both computing history and drama than all those films about Apple or Steve Jobs and the rest that tediously rehash the same stories of the winners. (Although one of the main characters, Joe Macmillan, has some Jobs-like character features. I do not mean this as a compliment.)
亲历者证实剧集精准还原了 80 年代德州工程师文化
我 80 年代在德州做计算机工程师，这部剧完美还原了那种文化。我最早知道 Halt and Catch Fire 是 6800 处理器上一条会让机器锁死的冷门非法指令。听说这部剧时我的第一反应是：他们竟敢用我脑中冷门角落的梗当剧名！看来以后不能拿它当密码了。
dreamcompiler查看英文原文
I've probably said this before, but I was a computer engineer in Texas in the 80s and this show captures that culture perfectly.* I first learned "Halt and Catch Fire" as an obscure illegal instruction on the 6800 processor that would lock it up. When I heard about this show my first reaction was "How dare they title a show with a meme from an obscure part of my hindbrain! Guess I can't use that for a password any more." *Well almost perfectly. I don't remember many engineers or coders being as attractive as the actors on this show.
纠正词源：HCF 指令梗源自 60 年代大型机时代的玩笑，而非 6800
奇怪的是，Halt and Catch Fire 这条"指令"其实源自 60 年代 System/360 参考卡上的玩笑，和 Rewind and Break Tape、Execute Operator 等一堆笑话并列。有人提到摩托罗拉 6800 的未公开指令，但这个词来自大型机时代，与个人计算无关。顺便说，大型机的物理能力是真实的：我曾操作过带 4 个 2311 硬盘（每个 7.5MB、洗衣机大小）的 System/360，跑 IBM 排序程序时这些家伙会在机房里挪动。
vincent-manis查看英文原文
The strange thing is that the “instruction” Halt and Catch Fire originated in a joke System/360 “green card” (reference summary) from the 1960s, along with Rewind and Break Tape, Execute (or Punch) Operator, and many others I've long since forgotten. Reference is sometimes made to an undocumented Motorola 6800 instruction, but the term is from the Big Iron era, and has nothing to do with personal computing. It's really from the "Blinkenlichts" era, when people commonly put up cartoons in the machine room showing a floating-point adder as a snake in a birdbath. By the way, Big Iron's abilities in the physical world were real. I occasionally operated a System/360 with 4 2311 disk drives, 7.5MB monsters with the form factor of washing machines. When running the IBM sort program, these clunkers were apt to move around the machine room.
铁杆粉丝力荐：全剧从头到尾都精彩，无需"熬过第一季"
四季我看了七遍。这剧好到我都不敢推荐给朋友，怕他们不像我这么喜欢。如果你没看过，先看第一季第一集——不喜欢的话它就不适合你，不必熬 20 小时"等好戏在后头"，从头到尾都精彩。
stevecalifornia查看英文原文
I have watched all four seasons seven times. This show is so good I don't recommend it to my friends because I'm not sure I could handle it if they didn't like it as much as myself. If you haven't seen the show, watch season 1 episode 1. If you don't like it, this isn't your show. You don't have to invest 20 hours of your life 'to get to the good season'. It's all good right from the start.
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