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.
Alexander Armstrong
as Clive Sinclair
Martin Freeman
as Chris Curry
Edward Baker-Duly
as Hermann Hauser
Sam Phillips
as Steve Furber
Peter Davison
as Bank manager
Derek Riddell
as Nigel Searle
James Fleet
as Kenneth Baker
Theo Barklem-Biggs
as Sinclair journalist
Tim Downie
as Tony Wood Rogers
Stefan Butler
as Roger Wilson
Colin Michael Carmichael
as Jim Westwood
Rhona Croker
as Valerie
