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Alexander Armstrong

Martin Freeman

Edward Baker-Duly

Sam Phillips

Derek Riddell

Rhona Croker

Amy Beth Hayes

Nicola Harrison

Saul Metzstein

Tony Saint

Micro Men

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08/10/2009

BBC Four - Micro Men

The battle between Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry for the 1980s home computer market.

Dramatisation of the race for home computer supremacy in the 1980s, documenting the lengthy rivalry between Clive Sinclair (Alexander Armstrong) and Chris Curry (Martin Freeman).

Affectionately comic drama about the British home computer boom of the early 1980s.

Legendary inventor Clive Sinclair battles it out with ex-employee Chris Curry, founder of Acorn Computers, for dominance in the fledgling market.

The rivalry comes to a head when the BBC announce their Computer Literacy Project, with the stated aim of putting a micro in every school in Britain. When Acorn wins the contract, Sinclair is furious, and determines to outsell the BBC Micro with his ZX Spectrum computer.

Home computing arrives in Britain in a big way, but is the country big enough for both men?

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