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Marshalltown Native Toby Huss to Appear in New AMC Series

By Ben Kieffer,
Lindsey Moon
Published May 30, 2014 at 11:36 AM CDT
Photo by James Minchin III/AMC
John Bosworth (Toby Huss) and Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace)

Marshalltown native Toby Huss’ latest project reaches back into history into the burgeoning computer revolution of the 1980’s, when IBM was out in from of the PC wars.The new series, AMC’s Half and Catch Fire, premiers this Sunday.

Huss, along with a small group of people at a midlevel computer company in Texas called Cardiff Electric, try to reverse engineer an IBM PC, steal the technology and improve upon it. He talks with host Ben Kieffer about the new series. 

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Ben Kieffer
Ben Kieffer is the host of IPR's River to River
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Lindsey Moon
Lindsey Moon served as IPR's Senior Digital Producer - Music and the Executive Producer of IPR Studio One's All Access program. Moon started as a talk show producer with Iowa Public Radio in May of 2014. She came to IPR by way of Illinois Public Media, an NPR/PBS dual licensee in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and Wisconsin Public Radio, where she worked as a producer and a general assignment reporter.
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