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.
10-08-2009
1h 24m
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Movie Details
Production Info
Director:
Saul Metzstein
Production:
DSP, BBC
Key Crew
Original Music Composer:
Ilan Eshkeri
Director of Photography:
Hubert Taczanowski
Locations and Languages
Country:
US; GB
Filming:
GB
Languages:
en
Main Cast
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