Overview

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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Cast

Alexander Armstrong

Clive Sinclair

Martin Freeman

Chris Curry

Edward Baker-Duly

Hermann Hauser

Sam Phillips

Steve Furber

Peter Davison

Bank manager

Derek Riddell

Nigel Searle

James Fleet

Kenneth Baker

Theo Barklem-Biggs

Sinclair journalist

Tim Downie

Tony Wood Rogers

Stefan Butler

Roger Wilson

Colin Michael Carmichael

Jim Westwood

Rhona Croker

Valerie