Micro Men Page #7

since the city heard that they had

made a big loss in America.

For some months now, it has been known

that Britain's most famous inventor

Sir Clive Sinclair has had financial problems.

His company Sinclair Research brought

computers out of the lab and into the home,

and was a runaway success in the early eighties.

But the market has slumped

as rapidly as it peaked.

And just before the weather -

and you'll like this Barry -

Will I indeed? I'll be the judge of that!

It was a battle of the boffins

in a Cambridge pub last night

Ha ha! Tell me more.

As two rival computer clever-clogs

came to blows over a business disagreement.

Fisticuffs, Greg?

Eyewitnesses reported the pair of eggheads

having a crack at each other!

Yolk on the carpet, Greg!

It's official - we're a joke.

Hope all the people we have to lay off

see the funny side.

We're not a joke, Chris.

The bottom has fallen out of

the whole market, that's all.

It's the same for everyone.

It's the same for Clive.

Does that make you feel better?

No, it doesn't.

I'll go and start letting everyone know.

What are they all going to do?

They are clever people.

They'll think of something.

Maybe they already have.

Chris. It's Clive here.

Clive Sinclair. We haven't spoken in months

and I wondered if - if you weren't too busy

just wondered if you might like to

meet up for a drink.

Like the old days. If you're around.

No grudges.

I've always predicted the computer boom

would come to an end.

Now it belongs to ghastly barrow-boys

like this Amstrad fellow.

But we adapt, Chris. We move on.

Businesses come, businesses go.

This was but one step on a greater journey.

And you know - ultimately -

The path of the future

will always be laid by the amateur.

The quiet chap - scuttling off to his shed

to work on that idea that he and he alone knows

will change the world.

That's the British way.

That's what made this

the greatest country on Earth.

'A man's reach must exceed his grasp,

or what's a heaven for?'

True enough.

But you know, the future still needs inventing.

I've been looking into the possibility -

of a flying car.

Time, gentlemen, please.

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