Why to watch season 1 of Halt and Catch Fire

Watched the AMC/Netflix series Halt and Catch Fire Season 1 largely on the premise, or promise, that the series would inprove as it developed and would merit the glowing reviews that many bestowed on the final seasons (similar to the arc of improvement in Breaking Bad), and I still have hopes for that. Season 1 was OK but only if you consider it the groundwork for further developments. The series is about a topic of interest to just about everyone: the development of the first personal computers and the people and forces behind the first PCs. The first season centers on 4 characters, w/ two significant bit players, working for an imagined Dallas electronics company that is on the skids; a charaismatic marketing guy,  Joe McMillon, on the run from IBM, talks the boss, Bosworth, into going all in on developing a new PC that will sell to the home market, not to businesses only. Much of the drama revolves around the interplay among McMillan, the key engineer (Gordon), and a software prodigy sexy hipster woman (Cameron), each w/ his/her own vision of the end product, all in collision: Should it be faster, more beautiful, more edgy (i.e., should it "talk" to the users?), lighter, cheaper, all of the above? We watch the product take shape, and the team fight off various rival companies, all leading toward a big product display a the trade show in LV. Watching this series of course reminds all of us that IBM once seemed invincible and that Apple was by no means inevitable: So many tech companies emerged in the early 80s and died a slow death, e.g., TI, which plays a role in this show. Obviously, by the end the main characters are heading off literally into the sunset, to start their own company perhaps but in the promised land of Silicon Valley. Yes, I am hooked and will keep watching.