Films / movies / documentaries about ECE
There are at least 2 good films about this:
Micro Men (Formerly Syntax Era)
BBC comedy-drama "Micro Men" about Sir Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry.
Described by the BBC as "an affectionately comic account of the 80s race for home computer supremacy"
From the BBC Press office:
Martin Freeman (The Office) and Alexander Armstrong (Armstrong & Miller, Mutual Friends) star in this single drama which provides an affectionately comic account of the race for home computer supremacy in the Eighties.
Micro Men documents the lengthy rivalry between maverick visionary Sir Clive Sinclair (Armstrong) and his former colleague Chris Curry (Freeman) who go head-to-head to achieve domination of the growing home computer market. Micro Men gives an amusing insight into the brilliant but eccentric characters that triggered the beginning of the UK computer revolution.
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGiGrf2YyZE
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Silicon Cowboys
Three friends dream up the Compaq portable computer at a Texas diner in 1981, and soon find themselves battling mighty IBM, for PC supremacy. Their improbable journey altered the future of computing and shaped the world we now know.
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wjJYqUkHd8
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There is also other angle to computers of that era: Medical nanobots as small as white blood cells ( 10 microns ), swimming in blood to cure disease, could have computers with similar computing power as ZX-81, zx spectrum, commodore 64 or first IBM PC
Posted Jul 3, 2018, 7:55 AM UTC