CHRISTOPHER CURRY, BORN 1946
CO-FOUNDER OF ACORN COMPUTERS
Christopher Curry is a technologist and businessman who co-founded Acorn Computers, with Dr Hermann Hauser and Sir Andy Hopper. He was born in Cambridge in 1946 where he lived and work throughout his life. His father worked in farming and his mother was a housewife. He had always been fascinated by computing and automation. He used to build amplifiers and radios out of old valves found in televisions at the local dump. He began his career working at Pye and then Royal Radar Establishment and WR Grace Laboratories. Following these early introduction to the workplace and technology he joined Sinclair Radionics in April 1966 where he worked for 13 years. In 1972, he helped Sinclair Radionics launch its first electronic calculator, the Sinclair Executive. With his co-founders he set up Cambridge Processor Unit Ltd in December 1978. Their first product was the Acorn Microcomputer (later called the System 1) followed by the Acorn Atom and the BBC Micro.
This life story was reproduced in 2024, with their kind permission, from the Archives of IT website at archivesit.org.uk.