Micro Men (2009)

Directed by

Saul Metzstein

Genre

docudrama

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 24m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 29 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This BBC drama follows two British computer companies in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It shows the rivalry between Sir Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry as they develop their competing home computers.

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What happens

Micro Men is a 2009 one-off BBC drama television programme set in the late 1970s and the early-mid 1980s, about the rise of the British home computer market and the early fortunes of Sinclair and Acorn Computers. It focuses on the rivalry between Sir Clive Sinclair (played by Alexander Armstrong), who developed the ZX Spectrum, and Chris Curry (played by Martin Freeman), the man behind the BBC Micro. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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