英国电脑业鼻祖 (2009)
Douban
Micro Men
director:
Saul Metzstein
playwright:
Tony Saint (writer)
actor:
Alexander Armstrong
/
Martin Freeman
/
Edward Baker-Duly
/
Sam Phillips
region:
United Kingdom
language:
English
release date: 2009
IMDb: tt1459467
Micro Men
overview
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?