Micro Men by Saul Metzstein
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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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Cast
Alexander Armstrong as Clive Sinclair
Martin Freeman as Chris Curry
Edward Baker-Duly as Hermann Hauser
Sam Phillips as Steve Furber
Peter Davison as Bank manager
Derek Riddell as Nigel Searle
James Fleet as Kenneth Baker
Theo Barklem-Biggs as Sinclair journalist
Tim Downie as Tony Wood Rogers
Stefan Butler as Roger Wilson
Colin Michael Carmichael as Jim Westwood
Rhona Croker as Valerie
Amy Beth Hayes as Cynthia
Nicola Harrison as Ann Sinclair
Anthony Smee as Norman Hewett
Michael Keating as Derek Holley
Jon Glover as John Radcliffe
Renny Krupinski as Foreman
James Garnon as Acorn Journalist
Rasmus Hardiker as Shop Assistant Luke
Alison Dowling as Shopper
Perdita Avery as Susan
Elizabeth Bower as Mindy
Sir Clive Sinclair as Self (archive footage)
Lord Alan Sugar as Self
James Corker as Cambridge Graduate (uncredited)
Jason Fitzpatrick as David Johnson-Davies (uncredited)
David Mahoney as Clapper Loader - Sinclair QL Commercial (Nicht genannt)
Mark Mansfield as Rick Dickinson (uncredited)
Rob Mcloughlin as Nick Toop (uncredited)
Cal O'Connell as Reporter (uncredited)
Sophie Wilson as Pub Landlady (uncredited)
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