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Article: SIR CLIVE: THE MOVIE Today we have Apple versus Microsoft. But according to a new BBC drama, in 1980s Britain the technological arms race between Sinclair Research and BBC Acorn was just as fierce.
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- October 4, 2009
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Alexander Armstrong stoops under a parasol in the beer garden of
a pub thick with smoke, checking messages on his iPhone and escaping
the relentless July downpour. The actor and comedian is made-up in
glasses, a ginger beard and bald pate that had taken two hours to
apply very early that morning and is reflecting on what it was like
to be a prepubescent boy in the golden age of British computer
manufacturing, the early Eighties.
'It was a time when we were being made aware of the future,'
Armstrong, 39, recalls. 'We'd been told that computers were going to
become more important in our lives. In our imaginations, they were
vast things. We'd be told things like: "One day, every car will have ...