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Someone will be along in a minute to tell you to watch Micro Men, an amusing and fairly accurate BBC dramatization of the Sinclair/Acorn rivalry :) but I'm here to recommend that you watch the Computer History Museum's interview with Hermann Hauser the erstwhile director of Acorn - he's very charming: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0sC3lT313Q

I'm fairly sure they've got one with Chris Curry too, but I can't spot it just now.



It would appear you can watch Chris Curry and Hermann Hauser watch Micro Men: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaonVYOTSsk -- and then have a post-viewing chat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4I2ktcWdJM

"I saw the first five minutes and had to run away, because I couldn't bear to see myself portrayed by Martin Freeman" -- Chris Curry


Which was hosted by the Centre for Computing History!


It's an entertaining watch, although a fair bit of dramatic licence is taken when depicting various anecdotes that would be well-known to readers of The Micro User and similar magazines of the time.


I had high hopes that the depiction of Uncle Clive's groupie encounter was entirely accurate.


Apparently the pub altercation wasn't far off.




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