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From: Pd on 13 Oct 2009 10:11 zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > It was heavy-handed but I actually laughed out loud. You what? LOL? ew. zOMG. -- Pd
From: Dorian Gray on 15 Oct 2009 07:19 In article <1j7f8p8.1cls38w1g8vfj9N%%steve%@malloc.co.uk>, %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > > > It depicts the battle between Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry in the > > early 80's. It spans the time from just before Chris left Sinclair, to > > the point that Sinclair Computers are bought by Amstrad. I rather > > enjoyed it. > > I was pleasantly surprised. There seemed to have been considerable > effort expended on getting things right as far as characterisation, The character of Hermann Hauser was spot on. Not just how he looked and dressed: <http://www.stairwaytohell.com/articles/img/article-acornhistory-au-88/AU Hist3.jpg> (picture with Chris Curry on the grass (!) at Kings) but how he speaks, moves, smiles. I'm not sure the real Hermann Hauser spent all his time sitting around reading the newspaper and swooping in to save things at the last second though. ;) The interactions with the bank manager and how Acorn got the overdraft (and got it progressively increased) is an anecdote that I've heard Hermann Hauser tell himself publicly more than once, so it was bound to feature in Micro Men, and it was portrayed just like Hermann tells it.
From: ray on 15 Oct 2009 07:44
Peter Hayes <aphnospam(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > Jim wrote: > > Not strictly on-topic but I know a few of us here are into computer > > history and/or/ Acorn/Sinclair stuff. > > > > Show last week sometime, repeated Monday, 10pm, BBC4. Also on BBC > > iPlayer. > > > > It depicts the battle between Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry in the > > early 80's. It spans the time from just before Chris left Sinclair, to > > the point that Sinclair Computers are bought by Amstrad. I rather > > enjoyed it. > > > > Although part of me thinks it should have been called 'Pirates of > > Silicon Fen'. > > > > I thought it was rubbish, try thr podfather documentary on Robert Noyce > on BBC4, just facts and talking heads not actors in ginger beards. > I enjoyed it, on HD last night. Shockingly bad bald wig on Sinclair though. The Noyce documentary was very good. -- http://www.dream-weaver.com/email.php Web development promotion and seo http://www.spaldingcomputers.co.uk http://www.overseasmovingsolutions.com/ |