I started working with computers when disk drives had the size and appearance of washing machines and computer memory was built from ferrite beads with copper wires running through them; that was with GEC computers, circa 1979.I went on to work for Data General and for MF Graphics as their national service manager. I then formed a company (with a partner) in 1996 called Wright Technologies Europe, which was dealer for an Australian company, Wright Technologies. We were systems… Show more I started working with computers when disk drives had the size and appearance of washing machines and computer memory was built from ferrite beads with copper wires running through them; that was with GEC computers, circa 1979.I went on to work for Data General and for MF Graphics as their national service manager. I then formed a company (with a partner) in 1996 called Wright Technologies Europe, which was dealer for an Australian company, Wright Technologies. We were systems integration specialists in the pre-press industry. Our main product ran on DEC Alpha sytems and was competing with the dreadful Apple Mac offerings of the day, running Photoshop.Tragically, it turned out that the Mac was not as dead as everybody thought and Photoshop definitely grew into something much better than we hoped. Several lessons learned there, I think, but we lasted for four years, somehow. This was during the dot com boom, during which time we came very close to securing significant funding from a major venture capitalist for a large database driven web project. Next, in 2000, I joined Kodak as an installation specialist and then as a remote support engineer before I decided to accept a golden opportunity to make my way to the exit door in late 2012.Since 2012 I have done a number of things, mostly projects that have grabbed my interest, rather than paid well; including writing, web design, and so on.Currently, I work part-time on business development for my son's company, SafeSure Plumbing and Heating Ltd., based in Luton. Show less