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Christopher Curry

Chris Curry was a central figure in the Cambridge phenomena which was Sinclair, Acorn and ARM. He started on the production line at PYE, worked for the Royal Radar Establishment and eventually arrived at Sinclair Radionics in 1966. He then helped set up Acorn Computers with its first product the Atom. Acorn was approached by the BBC and devised the BBC Micro, launched in 1980 it sold 3 million.

14 July 2017

David Potter CBE

David Potter CBE successfully straddled the worlds on academia and IT entrepreneurship. He started as an academic and then as an investor before founding Psion, Potter Scientific Instruments, in 1980. Psion became the largest microcomputer software vendor in the UK selling databases, utilities and computer games. By the early 1980s he had built a strong team and Psion was profitable. He decided to launch a mobile personal computer, the Psion organiser

14 July 2017

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