About Me
About Me |
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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 living near the city of Bangor, who first took an 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. More recently I got myself a Q68 (an FPGA-based
system) and also have a second QL with a QIMSI-Gold upgrade.
Nostalgically, I bought a The Spectrum in 2024, hoping to play some old games I played in my youth and perhaps re-learn ZX Spectrum BASIC.
For a few years I was a QL software trader and then helped Jochen Merz edit his QL Today magazine in my spare time for nearly 10 years (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 software project is something called Launchpad - a project to provide the QL with a graphical user interface (GUI) on its excellent multitasking operating system.
I've served on the committee of the QL user group,
Quanta where I held the post of News Editor. Now I'm retired, I also volunteer with the North Wales Craftworkers
association, maintaining their website, helping out with craft fairs
and so on, and on the committee of a local group for widowed people,
called Anglesey & Gwynedd Widowed.