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Chris Curry:
We could have been the British IBM, but you wouldn't listen to me when you should've - and now look at us
We could have been the British IBM, but you wouldn't listen to me when you should've - and now look at us
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We could have been the British IBM,
but you wouldn't listen to me when you should've
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- and now look at us.
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Shares in the Acorn microcomputer company
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were suspended on the stock market
this afternoon.
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It follows rumours of financial problems
at the company.
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Share prices in Acorn have been under pressure
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since the city heard that they had
made a big loss in America.
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For some months now, it has been known
that Britain's most famous inventor
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Movie Summary
In 1979 Clive Sinclair, British inventor of the pocket calculator, frustrated by the lack of home investment in his project,the electric car, also opposes former assistant Chris Curry's ...
