Halt and Catch Fire - Sales Call [ "A16" Scene ]

Name: Halt and Catch Fire - Sales Call [ "A16" Scene ]
Description: A scene from the TV drama Halt and Catch Fire in which Gordon Clark meets Joe MacMillan, who is posing as an IBM salesman, on a sales call. It includes the dialogue about IBM being the safe choice and a marketing guru telling an engineer when to stop talking.

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A scene from the TV drama Halt and Catch Fire in which Gordon Clark meets Joe MacMillan, who is posing as an IBM salesman, on a sales call. It includes the dialogue about IBM being the safe choice and a marketing guru telling an engineer when to stop talking.

HN commenters post it as a favorite scene about IBM's reputation and sales psychology.

5 Hacker News mentions · 2018–2026

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