My dad was a mechanical engineer, when the other kids were reading Willie Wonkers Chocolate Factory I buried myself in the Shell Petroleum Handbook. As a kid I was always making things, but when the door shut on a career in engineering I turned to computing. Despite being a self taught programmer and studying systems analysis for two years my first IT job was telesales.It was the 90’s when Britain still made stuff, I overhauled the companies sales material and began coming up with cheap “bits products” to take advantage of free advertising in the “new product sections” of magazines. My stuff was pretty radical, one product increasing the old school parallel printer cables from 15m to 305m's for £20. My crowning glory however was “Octobus”, a pre networking multi-user serial card made on a shoe string budget that saw us oust Sanderson Computing on a retail job in Ireland. (that did not go down well).I joined a national bulk computer retailer in the mid 90’s, became one of it’s top 10 salesmen, then fell out of favour when I discovered that the signs on the building “big on service” was the last thing the jokers were interested in. Joining a colleague who also left company, I had an unofficial apprenticeship in computer repair/installation running consultancy on the side. Building a Microsoft Maps & Excel, building an accurate estimating and billing system for a small transport firm. Heading back to my home town in 1999, I setup my own place and immediately started tinkering again. Building an Xbox in 2000 plumbed into a VGA equipped Lowe TV. 2002 we designed an NT based 4 room audio system fully controlled by a web app deployable to PDA’s, laptop and PC. 2003 saw me demonstrating commercially viable DVD to HD720 upscaling to JVC Professional. 2004 I was in front of Interbrew with an advanced Digital Signage Solution.Sadly many of my ideas were too early and too disruptive and I made lousy choices of business partners.I began MVS in 2011, despite what Hollywood and Marvel say... Multiverse actually means Multi dimensional, Versatile, data Solution. MVS was a mainframe IT concept using a cross platform browser interface to replace the traditional terminal. The back-end system being “big data”, cloud, SaaS, PaaS, No-SQL, API's and Dev-Ops for literally decades.Too fast, too reliable, too cheap, too much of a threat to mainstream IT. After 3 years in Manchester trying to pitch this product to people who simply could not understand it, or did but saw it as a threat. I gave up and put it down as the only product I have ever failed to sell.