Micro Men
08/10/2009
1h 24m
In 1979 Clive Sinclair, British inventor of the pocket calculator, frustrated by the lack of home investment in his project,the electric car, also opposes former assistant Chris Curry's belief that he can successfully market a micro-chip for a home computer. A parting of the ways sees Curry, in partnership with the Austrian Hermann Hauser and using whizz kid Cambridge students, set up his own, rival firm to Sinclair Radionics, Acorn. Acorn beat Sinclair to a lucrative contract supplying the BBC with machines for a computer series. From here on it is a battle for supremacy to gain the upper hand in the domestic market.
Cast
Alexander Armstrong
Clive Sinclair
Martin Freeman
Chris Curry
Edward Baker-Duly
Hermann Hauser
Sam Phillips
Steve Furber
Peter Davison
Bank manager
Derek Riddell
Nigel Searle
James Fleet
Kenneth Baker
Theo Barklem-Biggs
Sinclair journalist
Tim Downie
Tony Wood Rogers
Stefan Butler
Roger Wilson
Colin Michael Carmichael
Jim Westwood
Rhona Croker
Valerie
Amy Beth Hayes
Cynthia
Nicola Harrison
Ann Sinclair
Anthony Smee
Norman Hewett
Michael Keating
Derek Holley
Jon Glover
John Radcliffe
Renny Krupinski
Foreman
James Garnon
Acorn Journalist
Rasmus Hardiker
Shop Assistant Luke
Alison Dowling
Shopper
Perdita Avery
Susan
Elizabeth Bower
Mindy
Sir Clive Sinclair
Self (archive footage)
Lord Alan Sugar
Self
James Corker
Cambridge Graduate (uncredited)
Jason Fitzpatrick
David Johnson-Davies (uncredited)
David Mahoney
Clapper Loader - Sinclair QL Commercial (Nicht genannt)
Mark Mansfield
Rick Dickinson (uncredited)
Rob Mcloughlin
Nick Toop (uncredited)
Cal O'Connell
Reporter (uncredited)
Sophie Wilson
Pub Landlady (uncredited)
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