Halt and Catch Fire

Episode 1

So It Goes

Sat, Aug 19, 201744 mins

Two segments of Gordon, Joe and Cameron's business are going in divergent directions. CalNect, their ISP, is doing well, AOL who wants to buy it. Loadstar, their web browser which Joe and Cameron are working on, the latter remotely from her home base in Tokyo, has bugs which Cameron, the coder, has to fix. Much to Joe's dismay, Cameron seems to have gone silent on him. As such, another web browser, Mosaic, has overtaken the market, despite the fact that Joe and Cameron had a full one year head start on them. And Gordon wants Joe's energies placed on dealing with the issue of CalNect and AOL. As Gordon celebrates his fortieth birthday and the financial success of the company overall, they are unaware of the other issues which Cameron has been facing beyond her day job at Atari. Meanwhile, Donna is not averse to pulling the funding from projects that have either stalled or that are not visionary enough for her taste. When she gives twenty-four hours to Rover, a company looking for funding, to rejig their medical database idea, a clash may be in the works between Rover/Donna and Gordon/Joe as information was passed between ex-husband/ex-wife in general dinner chit-chat.