MICRO MEN 7

[TheEPROM9]

These men are inspirational!

[chazwozzaUK]

Anyway good film c

[chazwozzaUK]

Pair of knobheads! Could of had it all but were to English / gentleman like to eachother .... Just shows that you don't need email or a mobile phone etc... Just honest communication :( Alan sugar gets work done in Korea .... British market is fooked x

[bazfanv2]

Love or hate Sir Clive Sinclair. He has his rightful place in history and truly deserves the Knighthood he recieved.

[1990chrism]

I'm watching this on Linux on a PC I built myself.

[JakeFord95]

I wouldn't mind a C5 Electric car. Screw the fact I'd probably use it a few times before the novelty wears off.

[das81]

I love the symbology of the end with Clive in his car and the big yanks multinational trucks driving faster.

Sad that england couldn't hold up it's own hardware industry.

[Cow8ox]

the ending made me sad as microsoft and hp overtook him in his silly little car :(

[899robinson]

Though I'm an American, I really loved this show after watching it here on Youtube. I didn't know Britain was so well ahead of the US at that time in home computers!

When I was a little kid, we got a TRS-80 Color Computer for Christmas '83. It wasn't until years later that I found out that the ZX Spectrum not only had better graphics and the same memory, but was MUCH smaller and cheaper IN THE SAME YEAR! And in the days before Nintendo, that was a HUGE DEAL!

Wish we had shows like this here!:)

[janmansde3dede]

@899robinson Yeah same here, but from the Netherlands but wasn't the Atari 8 Bit computer a bit powerful

than the ZX for a smiliair price ?

I really wish those all in one cheap keyboard Computers get more attention nowadays, for as they

prevented the video game crash of 83 in Europe, made computers available for the masses and gave europe programming knowledge,

the NES is undeserving taking all the praise compared to the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Atari 8 bit all have done...

[899robinson]

@janmansde3dede The Atari XL(8 Bit) series was more powerful than the ZX Spectrum - in the same range as Commodore64, but was MUCH more expensive than the ZX or even the TRS-80 Co-Co.

We got a second-hand 800XL in 85 that was 64k RAM and I used to play many games on it - Ballblazer, Pac-Man, Journey To The Planets. We got an NES in 87 anyways.

The NES used the same processor as the old Atari2600, amazingly, but thanks to much bigger RAM and excellent programming, was far better in performance!

[janmansde3dede]

@899robinson Yep, but the NES still has a different processor, much more powerful but it was also a 6501 core processor.

[899robinson]

@janmansde3dede Your right! The Atari 2600's processor was a MOS Technology 6507, a cheap scaled-down version of their 6501/6502 series, while the NES used a Ricoh 2A03, a heavily modified and suped-up version of the 6502.

I knew they used the same basic core, but never knew the exact difference in variations! Thank God for Wiki:)

[OntologicalQuandry]

I just twigged. After watching this series of uploads for the third time (because it's so good), I realised you'd split into 8 'bits' numbered from 0-7. How dim I have become in my old age not to have spotted that sooner.

[LilSerenity1983]

Ahhh I miss them days, the innovation is great and all today, but back then it seemed like so much more fun.

[capricious71]

Brilliant programme (or should it be "program").

I loved these times. Still have my Spectrum.

[Amoss1000]

I did enjoy watching the programme and it was interesting seeing Alan Sugar featured as it was based in the 80s! But I was just wondering does anyone know the title of the theme tune that plays in the ending credits?

[ScourgeOfGodUK]

@Amoss1000 Oxygene Part 4 - Jean Michel Jarre

[Amoss1000]

@ScourgeOfGodUK Thank you! (y)

[Max404s]

Alan Sugar is a complete twat.

[SPFXsynthesisers]

@Max404s agreed

[retrocomputerkidkris]

@Max404s you wouldnt say that if u had his money m8 ;-)

[retrocomputerkidkris]

good old alan sugar

[MrFlibble2011]

@retrocomputerkidkris

Alan Sugar is a cunt.

[PurushaDesa]

I hate the fact that that magical 80s electronic score won't be released, since its such a niche drama.

[walter0bz]

great that their work lives on in ARM

[sphoney]

Amazing. Not sure how many times I've seen it, but this is the first time not on TV or BBCi. It always leaves me feeling the best kind of nostalgic... so much so I almost want a cigarette.

Vibrant times indeed.

[Blabloo72]

This was a really great docudrama! Makes me want to get my still working ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum out!

[Saltor66]

Beautiful drama!

A Speccy fan.

[TheLoonwolf]

Had that 'Oxygene' as one of the songs that played on my BBC Master 128. :)

[ZXZeido]

The best business drama I've watched in ages.

As a Speccy fan, who lived through and admired the 80s computer scene in Britain, Micro Men is just fantastic.

Well done and inspiring.

[UncleFeedle]

The barmaid in the blue dress at 4.41 is Sophie Wilson (formerly Roger Wilson), co-creator of the BBC Micro.

[TheMCMXXL]

@UncleFeedle Yes, and even the (co-)Creator of the ARM-Processor, which can be found (roughly extended) in nearly each Handheld-Device out there, including IPad, IPhone etc.

[MassimoPiai]

@UncleFeedleno way! :-O

[davegwldn]

Superb production - one of the best and most riveting DocuDramas I think the BBC has ever commissioned. Full marks. Has this not been shown on Network TV?? Why on Earth not...

[97channel]

Does anyone know the name of the music which plays out over the end titles?

[gentlepersuader]

Oxygene (Track 4) by Jean Michel Jarre 1976

[97channel]

Thanks a million. I can go hunt down an mp3 now I know what it's called and who it's by. I've been after it for absolutely years. :-)