Micro Men – 720p (2009) – YouTube
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/23
Interesting dramatised video about Clive Sinclair, Chris Curry, early Acorn Computer days and more early home computer days: [Wayback/Archive] Micro Men – 720p (2009) – YouTube originally for the UK market at [Wayback/Archive] BBC Four – Micro Men.
Quote from the video description:
DURATION: 1 HOUR, 20 MINUTES
Affectionately comic drama about the British home computer boom of the early 1980s.
Legendary inventor Clive Sinclair battles it out with ex-employee Chris Curry, founder of Acorn Computers, for dominance in the fledgling market.
The rivalry comes to a head when the BBC announce their Computer Literacy Project, with the stated aim of putting a micro in every school in Britain. When Acorn wins the contract, Sinclair is furious, and determines to outsell the BBC Micro with his ZX Spectrum computer.
Home computing arrives in Britain in a big way, but is the country big enough for both men?
BBC – Please release this on Blue Ray with some nice extras, it is a work of art.
Credits
- Clive Sinclair
- Alexander Armstrong
- Chris Curry
- Martin Freeman
- Hermann Hauser
- Edward Baker-Duly
- Steve Furber
- Sam Phillips
- Roger Wilson
- Stefan Butler
- Jim Westwood
- Colin Carmichael
- Nigel Searle
- Derek Ridell
- Valerie
- Rhona Croker
- Cynthia
- Anne Beth Hayes
- Ann Sinclair
- Nicola Harrison
- Director
- Saul Metzstein
- Producer
- Andrea Cornwell
- Writer
- Tony Saint
--jeroen
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