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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
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Alexander Armstrong
Clive Sinclair
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Martin Freeman
Chris Curry
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Edward Baker-Duly
Hermann Hauser
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Sam Phillips
Steve Furber
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Peter Davison
Bank manager
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Derek Riddell
Nigel Searle
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James Fleet
Kenneth Baker
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Theo Barklem-Biggs
Sinclair journalist
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Tim Downie
Tony Wood Rogers
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Stefan Butler
Roger Wilson
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Colin Michael Carmichael
Jim Westwood
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Rhona Croker
Valerie
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Amy Beth Hayes
Cynthia
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Nicola Harrison
Ann Sinclair
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Anthony Smee
Norman Hewett
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Michael Keating
Derek Holley
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Jon Glover
John Radcliffe
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Renny Krupinski
Foreman
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James Garnon
Acorn Journalist
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Rasmus Hardiker
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