Micro Men - 720p (2009)

whats that amazing nerdy music in the end titles called?

R.I.P Michael Keating @02:42, my fav actor in Blake's 7. He came across as genuine but also cool in that, someone you believed you could get along with if you ever met. A proper natural as it were. He will be missed!

That scene "Goodbye, old friend" hits hard when you rewatch the movie in your 40s :-)

if, like me you were 14 in 1983, this is an absolute trove of treasured nostalgia. i have seen the film criticised, and it IS an oddball film, but sinclair WAS an oddball; a genius from an oddball world. it is intrinsically british; clunky, uncool and unsexy. but the truth is that there is nothing sexy about computers, nor business. most viewers will have lived through much of this era, seen the old adverts and news clips on the limited tv network we had in the 70s. what this film successfully does is take an admittedly limited number of us through a catalogue of forgotten golden memories and back into the mists of our childhood. it makes a seductive watch because it comforts us. it is tinged with a melancholy and leaves you frustrated at the outcomes of the two protagonists, and what some clearer thinking might have done to rescue our prized homegrown industry. the truth is sir clive wanted to go toe to toe with acorn, and chris curry reciprocated, bringing about the demise of the industry. he wasn't interested in games, despite the fact that that's where the money obviously always was (AND that he had single-handedly started a gaming revolution). why it resonates a sadness is more to do with our desire for lost youth, and that is a whole different story.

We were brought up with the image of 'Uncle Clive' the benevolent eccentric. Turns out he was a real nasty POS.

Those that don't learn from history, will be doomed to repeat it.
Anyway, lets have a look at how AI is doing 40 years later...

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What a time to be a kid! I loved those days.

Just looked up the QL 1:06 and although it was a commercial disaster, its lack of functionality prompted Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, to learn low-level programming on his own. Linux, the OS later adopted by Steve Jobs, whose company went on to develop a version it called iOS. The OS used on the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV and Apple Vision. The same OS base that Google used for Android. So both these men had a huge impact on the IT industry in their own right. Sinclair hardware inspired Torvalds, who laid the groundwork for iOS and Android. As for Acorn, they laid the groundwork for ARM processors used in Apple devices since 2007, so the first iPhone. The latter only recently switched to Apple's silicon in 2020. 99% of Android devices still use ARM processors. And what's equally daunting to me is that I lived through the whole thing.

Had Sir Clive released the Sinclair C10 instead of the C5, things may have been different. It was a tandem two seater with a top speed of 30mph and supposedly had a little more range than the C5. The money ran out before it could be realised. If it was produced now with the latest technology, it would probably have a range of a couple of hundred miles, fully enclosed, regenerative braking and a top speed of 60mph.

What a brilliant piece of dramatisation! Xander Armstrong is a complete genius- love him 👌

Steve Jobs gets 100% of the credit for products that he rejected and were developed in spite of him. Of the few products he did actually spearhead, the vast majority were utter failures. Windows was developed in spite of Bill Gates, not because of him. It would be nice to see the Wozniaks, Baers, Decuirs and Miners of the world get the credit they deserve.

Nice to see a cameo from Sophie Wilson as the barmaid. She deserved to be in this after the work she did for Acorn.

This just popped into my mind. So glad I've found this on your channel. Thank you. Absolutely fantastic. ❤️

Only real flaw with this is no mention of Elite

"The path of the future will always be laid by the amateur".

At 2.54 he says "we are running a proper business here, not an amusement arcade". As somebody who is familiar with amusement arcades - they ARE a PROPER BUSINESS and make a LOT of money.

52:28 That oughta teach him how to act all cocky.

What is the music that plays at 17 minutes and 16-seconds?