These guys have given thousands of 80s British kids a career in computers, myself included!

I could listen to these chaps all night. What an amazing occasion. Thanks to all of you for putting this on, it was something I never even suspected could happen.

I owe Chris Curry my career. He went to Kimbolton School and donated an entire network of BBC Micros to the school shortly before I joined the 6th form there. I spent a summer with a key to that computer room reverse engineering the EcoNet file server on the machines he gave. That made me an engineer.

Curry, Hauser, Sinclair. They're all legends really, to me.

Thanks to those guys building those machines. I owned electron, beeb and an archie. It’s given me a career as a developer

People were absolutely still smoking in public office spaces right up until the middle of the 90's, and I'm ashamed to admit I was one of them!

RIP Sir Clive. Thanks for this interview gents. Fascinating to listen to.

That chat was fantastic!  It's a shame some of the points talked about didn't make it into an extended version of the film.  Amazing to hear so many bits of information here behind the history.  Was one of the most interesting videos I've watched in a while.

I love this discussion as people try to remember all the little details from 40 years ago. I've got so much respect for these people and what they achieved back in the day. Even if it didn't work out from a business perspective, they can look back and say they made some damn fine computers.

Really enjoyed this and the actual screening - well done to all for some real insights into two of my favourite machines from the day - we used the BBC with its Z80 co-pro on CPM (and the 6502 one) to do all our development for most other machines including later products for ironically enough the ZX Spectrum... so thank you all.

Brilliant.  Could listen to these guys talk for hours.  Someone should make a serious documentary about Acorn with these guys in it.

I was never a Sinclair or Acorn fanboy, but loved the film and liked the openness of the Chris, Herman and Steve. Shame they couldn't get Sophie, Clive et al along for the ride

Thank you so much for getting these guys together and making this.

Thanks for this!  Hard to imagine three senior statesmen of the US personal computer industry talking about the past in such a self-deprecating manner.
Interesting to notice how Steve Furber, the mostly technical by far, sees the problems of the past from a different perspective from Hauser and Curry.

Herman Hauser seems to be exactly as he is portrayed in the film.

This is great! Love the details about my favorite Acorn: the Electron

This was amazing! I'm a yank, but I've always had a fascination for the British computer scene, and loved Micro Men. Having an Atari ST and Amiga BITD and now, I played a lot of British games and read a lot of British computer mags and watched a lot of British (and Euro) demos. I wish you could have let them talk a lot longer. I loved learning everything I learned from this!

Thank you for sharing, being from Latin America, never had the pleasure of working with a Spectrum or a BBC micro, I had a Commodore 64. After watching Micro Men got an emulator for the electron on my Debian system and their basic was awesome, did the same for the BBC micro and the Spectrum. Never got anything done on the emulator for the spectrum because the way the IO was designed with Basic commands on the keys. But the BBC Micro basic was awesome and the ease you could go from 40 to 80 columns that was cool. The "8-bit guy" made a video on how difficult it was to accomplish that on the C64.


But just to keep the story short, always did wondered about the altercation with Mr Curry and Mr. Sinclair.

As someone growing up around computing during these times, this is just pure gold.  When you get guys like this in a room together to reminisce, the memories/nostalgia will always fuel the chatter.  Straight from the horses mouths, just missing a few gin and tonics (along with clive and richard) and we really would have gotten into the muck and bullets.

Superb.  As others have said, I could have listened to Steve, Hermann and Chris talk for hours.  Fascinating, amusing and honest.

Brilliant - thanks again for arranging this.