Back in the old days (the 80s believe it or not), when PCs were called microcomputers, when we used the filofax, not a PDA, and the economy was just coming out of recession (OK, some things don’t change) – I was responsible for a fairly large business to business customer service desk. We ran a [...]

By the end of the 1980s, my teen programming proclivities had given way to more usual youthful pursuits like pubs, clubs, gigs and festivals. I’d decided to pursue a career in tech journalism and in 1991 started work at the IT trade weekly Computing.
Ironically, the magazine was still produced manually, with pages painstakingly laid out [...]