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Micro Men

Micro Men

Drama
2009, Movie, 1h 24min
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.
Country: United Kingdom
Director:
Saul Metzstein
Cast:
Martin Freeman,
James Fleet,
Alexander Armstrong,
Peter Davison
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Saul Metzstein
Director
Martin Freeman
As Chris Curry
James Fleet
As Kenneth Baker
Alexander Armstrong
As Clive Sinclair
Peter Davison
As Bank manager
Theo Barklem-Biggs
As Sinclair journalist
Rasmus Hardiker
As Shop Assistant Luke
Tim Downie
As Tony Wood Rogers

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In the early 1980s, two companies, Sinclair Radionics and Acorn Computers, battled for supremacy in the British home computer market. Clive Sinclair, the inventor of the pocket calculator, and Chris Curry, his former assistant, were the driving forces behind these companies. The race was on to win a lucrative contract with the BBC to provide machines for their computer programming series. As the competition intensified, the personal and professional differences between Sinclair and Curry came to a head, leading to a bitter struggle for dominance. Based on real-life events, Micro Men is a drama that explores the cutthroat world of technology and innovation, where genius and ego often collide.

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