Story highlights AMC's '80s-based "Halt and Catch Fire" portrays a time when more women were in computer science

Educators are striving to get more girls to study computer science

(CNN) Quick, name a couple of famous female coders in the vein of Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates. Nobody comes to mind, eh?

Nowadays, two of the best-known women in computer science might just be characters on a TV show.

On AMC's 1980s-set drama "Halt and Catch Fire," which is ending its second season on Sunday, friends Cameron and Donna run an upstart computer company called Mutiny. (They have a little something in common with female computing innovators Lore Harp and Carole Ealy .)

One might assume that in the early 1980s, women in computer science were a rarity, but that's not true.

"In the '80s, there were more women getting degrees in computer technology than there are now, which is mind-blowing," Kerry Bishe (Donna) said on the set of the show, a house filled with old PCs, computer wires and vintage rock and movie posters.

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