AMC, perhaps best known for shows like Breaking Bad, Mad Men, and The Walking Dead, has a new show about to hit the small screen. Halt and Catch Fire is a very loose adaptation of the founding of Compaq Computer, the first company to truly reverse engineer the IBM PC.

The pilot is available online and premieres this weekend.

But this post is really about the true story of a daring group of Texas Instruments employees who decided to take on IBM, at the time a hulking corporate behemoth that was as big a player as there was in the fledgling tech universe, with the hottest product as well.

Follow the link and you can listen to the story, told by Brian McCullough on the excellent Internet History Podcast, or read through the narrative, if that’s more your thing. An exciting tale, well told.