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.

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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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  Stefan Butler

  Roger Wilson