Micro Men (2009)

Handling

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.

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Medvirkende

• Alexander ArmstrongClive Sinclair
• Martin FreemanChris Curry
• Edward Baker-DulyHermann Hauser
• Sam PhillipsSteve Furber
• Peter DavisonBank manager
• Derek RiddellNigel Searle
• James FleetKenneth Baker
• Theo Barklem-BiggsSinclair journalist
• Tim DownieTony Wood Rogers
• Stefan ButlerRoger Wilson
• Colin Michael CarmichaelJim Westwood
• Rhona CrokerValerie
• Amy Beth HayesCynthia
• Nicola HarrisonAnn Sinclair
• Anthony SmeeNorman Hewett
• Michael KeatingDerek Holley
• Jon GloverJohn Radcliffe
• Renny KrupinskiForeman

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