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| Visiting my namesake village in Herefordshire, England |
I
was born in Denbigh, North Wales in 1959. I'm a former broadcasting
technician, now working for a major supermarket chain, living near the
city of Bangor, who first took in interest in Sinclair products as a
schoolboy when my parents bought me a Sinclair pocket calculator and a
Sinclair Black Watch. After cutting my teeth on BASIC and Machine Code on
the ZX81 I moved on to a Spectrum (ah, memories) and a QL as soon as it
came out. I later bought a Z88 but sold that when I bought my first PC
laptop. My favoured computer system is now a PC with a
QPC2 QL emulator. I also have an
Aurora-based Minis-QL computer and a good old black Sinclair QL with a
Gold Card.
For a few years I was a QL software trader and then helped Jochen Merz edit his QL Today magazine in my spare time (sorry Mr Taxman, it was unpaid), along with writing software, enjoying the lovely Welsh countryside, updating this Web site and tinkering with computers generally as a hobby. My biggest recent project is something called Launchpad (more details elsewhere on this website) - a project to provide the QL with a graphical user interface (GUI) on its excellent multitasking operating system.