Micro Men

Micro Men (2009)

Micro Men narra la peculiar relación de Clive Sinclair con uno de sus más brillantes y estrechos colaboradores en la época en que Clive dirigía Sinclair Radionics, Chris Curry. A finales de los años setenta, ciertas desavenencias entre ambos provocaron que Curry dejase plantado a su jefe para fundar su propia compañía, Acorn Computers, que libraría con Sinclair una enconada lucha por hacerse con el jugoso pastel que representaba el mercado británico de ordenadores, el cual experimentó una efervescencia tremenda a principios de los ochenta. Aquella lucha entre dos empresas a la caza de pingües negocios quedó personificada en sus dos máximos jefes, cuyo enfrentamiento adquirió a veces tintes de auténtica guerra pese a que ambos se admiraban, se respetaban y se envidiaban mutuamente.

Fecha de estreno
2009-10-08
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (30)
Duración
1 h 24 min
Géneros
Drama
Director
Saul Metzstein

Reparto

Curiosidades

Micro Men is a 2009 one-off BBC drama television programme set in the late 1970s and the early-mid 1980s, about the rise of the British home computer market and the early fortunes of Sinclair and Acorn Computers. It focuses on the rivalry between Sir Clive Sinclair, who developed the ZX Spectrum, and Chris Curry, the man behind the BBC Micro.

Production

The programme was created by independent production company Darlow Smithson and was written by Tony Saint, directed by Saul Metzstein and produced by Andrea Cornwell. It was produced as a BBC Drama, shot in the UK, with some scenes shot in and around the colleges of Cambridge on 15 July 2009. Computers were supplied by The Centre for Computing History, then in Haverhill.

The programme's titles use a green lettering font similar to that produced by the 1980s monitors to which BBC Microcomputers would have typically been connected.

The soundtrack uses a number of early 1980s electronica tracks: Though not all tracks are limited to that decade.

"Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood

"Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd

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