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The Gamesblog (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Alexander Armstrong and Martin Freeman play Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry two Brits who beat the giant tech firms in Silicon Valley There's a singular set of first memories that many of us share of our first experience with a home computer. The satisfying give of the keys on the black, cumbersome keyboard; a constantly whirring cassette tape, or pleasingly tactile floppy disk; the jarringly...
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GamesIndustry.biz (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
It's the story of wild ambition, technological revolution, global success, jealousy, revenge, crushing failure and ultimate reconciliation that shaped the British games industry in the 1980s – and its main protagonists, Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry, have both raided the data banks to guide BBC Four's retelling in a one-off comedy drama. And the production team has revealed how...
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IT Sneak (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
... BBC Four on Thursday evening, follows the parallel careers of Sinclair and his one-time employee Chris Curry. This not entirely flattering portrait of one of the most important and influential inventors of the 20th Century paints Sinclair as a megalomaniacal, bipolar tyrant who would hurl abuse at his employees just as easily as stray bits of office equipment. Sinclair is the first...
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Breaking News from The Birmingham News - al.com (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Shelby County Sheriff Chris Curry and District Attorney Robby Owens today threw their support to Luther Strange for state attorney general in 2010. Strange has announced that he will be a candidate in next year year's Republican primary. Troy...
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Breaking News from The Birmingham News - al.com (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Shelby County District Attorney Robby Owens and Sheriff Chris Curry are scheduled to "make statements" regarding the 2010 state attorney general's race at a new conference Tuesday, according to a press release on the campaign Web site of Luther Strange, who is...
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trucks world news (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
... then revenue has fallen but will still total $45 million to $50 million this year.. . (Photo by Chris Curry: Stanley Mitchell Jr. transfers liquid nitrogen for Cryogenic Vessel Alternatives at its headquarters in Mont Belvieu)
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Watch free movies online (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Release Date: 8 Oct, 2009 | Summary: Affectionately comic drama about the British home computer boom of the early 1980s. 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...
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Norfolk 'n Good! (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
If you have even the slightest passing interest in the story of home computers you can still catch the wonderful Micro Men on I-player - brilliant entertaining stuff and great performances by Alexander Armstrong as Sir Clive Sinclair and Martin Freeman as Chris Curry of Acorn Computers. I confess to being a long time fan of Sir Clive Sinclair and always held his achievements in high esteem...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
... Sir Clive Sinclair, whose overriding ambition was to make computers affordable for everyone, and Chris Curry, whose Acorn Computers won the BBC Micro contract in 1982. Lane Fox has a case to make: that despite all those efforts over the past 25 years there are at least 10 million adults in the UK who have never been online; that there are another 1.6 million children whose earning...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
... BBC4 film Micro Men last week, based on the fierce rivalry between (Sir) Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry, co-producer of the wonderful BBC computer in the 1980s. Not a single bit of my output from then is readily accessible today. Will it be the same for today's digital photographs? The past week has not only witnessed a Nobel Prize for physics for the inventors of the CCD (charge-coupled...
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Los Havros (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Micro Men- Drama from the BBC looking at the 1980s when Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry competed for dominance of the emerging home computer market. An interesting retrospective on the origins of computing and gaming today. Well worth a watch on iPlayer. Only available till 19/10/09.
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The Sci-Fi Gene (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry aren't the only unlikely pairing in the history of computing - in fact I wonder if Stonehenge wasn't designed and built by two druids with opposing personalities who inspired each other to great things despite being constantly at each other's throats. The Victorian equivalent of Sinclair and Curry were mathematicians Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace,...
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Bell End (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
BBC3 and BBC4 often have some interesting programmes that are easily missed. I remembered to record Micro Men , a dramatisation of the work of Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry who produced the ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro respectively. It was good fun, although Sinclair didn’t come across as a particularly likeable character, which I found disappointing since he was always something...
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The Sci-Fi Gene (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
... electric-car-obsessed Clive Sinclair. Martin Freeman plays mild-mannered former employee Chris Curry who left Sinclair to form rival company Acorn. The two men went head to head in a race to develop cheap home computers - leading to the brief success of the ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro. This is a great production, from the Matrix-styled titles to the 80s period detail. Characters are...
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but she's a girl... (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
I've been so busy at work the past few weeks that all I've been fit for at the end of a long day is flopping in front of the TV. One programme that I really enjoyed (for the nostalgia factor as much as anything else), was Micro Men , a drama about the rather strained relationship between Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry as they competed to produce the most popular home computer in the 1980s....
