Micro Men

In 1979 Clive Sinclair British inventor of the pocket calculator frustrated by the lack of home investment in his projectthe electric car also opposes former assistant Chris Currys belief that he can successfully market a microchip 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