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Micro Men

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.

2009 |1h 24m |  Drama

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Cast

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Alexander Armstrong

Clive Sinclair

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Martin Freeman

Chris Curry

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Edward Baker-Duly

Hermann Hauser

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Sam Phillips

Steve Furber

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Peter Davison

Bank manager

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Derek Riddell

Nigel Searle

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James Fleet

Kenneth Baker

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Theo Barklem-Biggs

Sinclair journalist

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Tim Downie

Tony Wood Rogers

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Colin Michael Carmichael

Jim Westwood

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Rhona Croker

Valerie

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Amy Beth Hayes

Cynthia

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Nicola Harrison

Ann Sinclair

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Michael Keating

Derek Holley

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Jon Glover

John Radcliffe

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Renny Krupinski

Foreman

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James Garnon

Acorn Journalist

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Rasmus Hardiker

Shop Assistant Luke

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Alison Dowling

Shopper

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Perdita Avery

Susan

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Sir Clive Sinclair

Self (archive footage)

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Lord Alan Sugar

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Language

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