Micro Men - Clive Sinclair Story as a Memo to New Generations

Remember the ZX-Spectrum, habrachelovek?

So the British also remember, but they remember that they shot a feature film based on the great home PC boom in the UK, which happened in the period 1980-1984.

The BBC production order, the announcement in The Guardian tabloid , premiered on BBC Four on October 8, 2009 (with an audience of 1.4 million viewers) and subsequent approving reviews ( thousands of them ), as if clearly hinting to us: “Watch now! " .
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The details of this intricate and instructive history of the first computer startups of the eighties just below ...

Micro Men 2009 (TV)
IMDB User Rating: 7.1/10
Director: Saul Metzstein
Writer: Tony Saint
Cast: Alexander Armstrong (Clive Sinclair), Martin Freeman (Chris Curry), Edward Baker-Duly (Hermann Hauser)

So, we have a perfectly filmed black comedy in the scale of events, only slightly inferior to the "Pirates of Silicon Valley" . Two enthusiasts in their field, Clive Sinclair (Sinclair Research) and Chris Curry (Acorn Computers) on the path to success through the development of the first available home computers. Ideas, insights, disagreements in concepts, hatred, blood, the undermining of the market with new technologies - everything mixed up in this film. The plot of the film is completely based on real events with a minimal amount of episodes invented by the scriptwriters, which perfectly fit into the tragicomic style.

Trailer # 1 : Micro Men - Clive Sinclair - Temper Temper


Trailer # 2 : Micro Men (Formerly Syntax Era) Trailer


Micro Men teaches to look at the idea from different angles. Combine efforts, if necessary, adjust the strategy taking into account the activity of competitors, enter into alliances to combat the common threat. And of course the main business idea is: “Sell on time, otherwise there will be nothing to sell!”

However, why am I telling you all this - look and draw your own conclusions. This is really a worthwhile film, with an interesting ideological component, well placed on historical facts. By and large, the situation with new concepts in the market is repeated from a decade to a decade: “If you want to make a new Google, see how it was done before you!”

Download the film from foreign torrents by Micro Men (8 October 2009) [PDTV (XviD)]. Avi (683 Mb, 624x352, 130kbps, XviD). Nearby is the version as 720p (file name Micro_Men.720p_HDTV_x264-FoV.mkv), the live distribution is seen on thebox.bz .

The film is in the original language (ie, English), I hope this will not stop you from watching. Well, if the language barrier comes up sharply - ask for your business angel, he will be able to translate for sure :-)

PS Russian subtitles and voice are born here . First results: amateur Russian audio track narod.ru/disk/15764228000/MMen7775.mp3.html

PPS I almost forgot! Personally, I now have no doubts what computers the Wolf Ollins (MTS egg) creative computers had during school years.