Micro Men (2009)
Drama
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.
Cast
Clive Sinclair
Chris Curry
Jim Westwood
Valerie
Cynthia
Ann Sinclair
Norman Hewett
Derek Holley
John Radcliffe
Foreman
Acorn Journalist
Shop Assistant Luke
Hermann Hauser
Shopper
Susan
Mindy
Self (archive footage)
Self
Cambridge Graduate (uncredited)
David Johnson-Davies (uncredited)
Clapper Loader - Sinclair QL Commercial (Nicht genannt)
Rick Dickinson (uncredited)
Nick Toop (uncredited)
Steve Furber
Reporter (uncredited)
Pub Landlady (uncredited)
Bank manager
Nigel Searle
Kenneth Baker
Sinclair journalist
Tony Wood Rogers
Roger Wilson
Crew
Director
Writer
Original Music Composer
Director of Photography