Set at the dawn of the PC-era Halt and Catch Fire follows three unlikely mavericks in the race to build a computer that will revolutionise the modern world. When former IBM executive Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace) plans to reverse engineer IBM’s flagship product in the hope of producing a smaller and faster PC he enlists the help of engineer Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy) and volatile prodigy Cameron Howe (MacKenzie Davis) who between them put their personal and professional lives at risk in the hope of revolutionising the market.
Set at the dawn of the PC-era Halt and Catch Fire follows three unlikely mavericks in the race to build a computer that will revolutionise the modern world. When former IBM executive Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace) plans to reverse engineer IBM’s flagship product in the hope of producing a smaller and faster PC he enlists the help of engineer Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy) and volatile prodigy Cameron Howe (MacKenzie Davis) who between them put their personal and professional lives at risk in the hope of revolutionising the market.