Ooo (spotted on twitter and on topic)
@xanneroo aka Alexander Armstrong said
"Been offered the part of Clive Sinclair in a new film about the 80s British computer boom. Playing opposite Martin Freeman. That'll be a yes"
"Martin is paying Chris Curry who made BBC computers. God it's going to be fun!"
"film for the BBC so who knows when it'll be shown..."
"I have a soft spot for Sir Clive"
"Been offered the part of Clive Sinclair in a new film about the 80s British computer boom. Playing opposite Martin Freeman. That'll be a yes"
"Martin is paying Chris Curry who made BBC computers. God it's going to be fun!"
"film for the BBC so who knows when it'll be shown..."
"I have a soft spot for Sir Clive"
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That's actually bloody good casting.
"@Xanneroo Having a costume fitting for Clive Sinclair. We're not identically built but I think we've found the right specs...
http://twitpic.com/8390r "
Museum to Play Part in Syntax Era Film
The Centre for Computing has been asked to advise and supply a great
deal of vintage computing equipment for the forthcoming BBC film 'Syntax
Era'.
Produced by Darlow Smithson for BBC4 and written by Tony Saint, the film
will be about the rivalry between Sinclair and Acorn computers to
dominate the british home computer market in the 1980's. The film will
star Martin Freeman (The Office) and Alexander Armstrong (Armstrong &
Miller) and is likely to be aired in the Autumn.
Museum curator, Jason Fitzpatrick, said "It's a very exciting project
and one which is very close to my heart as both of these companies
produced computers that I owned and loved as a young lad. Both companies
were based in Cambridge which in my opinion is the UK's equivalent of
Silicon Valley. We owe both of these two companies a huge amount of
respect for the development of british computing.
We have many challenges to face for this production. We have to build a
replica of the prototype BBC micro and Acorn System 3, write several
programs that create the onscreen representation of the prototype, have
ready many 'new looking' computers monitors for the workshop sceens as
well as supply a whole host of 80's equipment from oscilloscopes through
to betamax video recorders and Asteroids arcade machines ... even a
Sinclair C5 !!"
Oh dear me.
Still, should be a good comedy.
http://www.starnow.co.uk/Casting-Calls/Actors-wanted/Television/bbc_dramadocumentary_s_computers_lo.htm
i'd apply but i have such a modern look i wouldn't fit in. i could possible pass as a skin head, but i bet you didn't get too many of them at science fairs.
They need beardies.....oooohhh interesting.
any new ones will appear at
http://www.twitpic.com/photos/xanneroo
We all know that the real battle was against the righteous battle against the Commode's rectangular, brown pixels. I guess they want to dramatise the slightly more serious race for UK school's contract, rather than playground silliness. The fools!