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.
as Clive Sinclair
as Chris Curry
as Hermann Hauser
as Steve Furber
as Bank manager
as Nigel Searle
as Kenneth Baker
as Sinclair journalist
as Tony Wood Rogers
as Roger Wilson
as Jim Westwood
as Valerie
as Cynthia
as Ann Sinclair
as Norman Hewett
as Derek Holley
as John Radcliffe
as Foreman
as Acorn Journalist
as Shop Assistant Luke
as Shopper
as Susan
as Mindy
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Cambridge Graduate (uncredited)
as David Johnson-Davies (uncredited)
as Clapper Loader - Sinclair QL Commercial (Nicht genannt)
as Rick Dickinson (uncredited)
as Nick Toop (uncredited)
as Reporter (uncredited)
as Pub Landlady (uncredited)
