Micro Men - 720p (2009)

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it often as an entertaining and authentic dramatization of Sinclair versus Acorn, the story from which ARM grew.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

gimpymoo

Topic

british home computing history

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

15

HN mentions in dataset

20

Recommendation years in dataset

2015–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I can highly recommend the BBC drama "Micro Men", about the early years of the British home computer boom and the rivalry between Sinclair and Acorn. It gives a real flavour of the mad, maverick years before the IBM clones took over. [VIDEO]

• If you haven't already seen it, 'Micro Men' is an excellent TV drama that details the history of the BBC's computer project and the battle to be the chosen computer: [VIDEO]

• The excellent Micro Men docudrama ( [LINK] ) has somehow been on Youtube since 2013: [VIDEO] (1h24m) Micro Men, working title Syntax Era, is a 2009 one-off BBC drama television programme set in the late 1970s and the early-mid 1980s, about the rise of the …