University of Manchester

I did a BSc in Physics and during that period I was given the chance to program the Atlas Computer in 1965. (I’ve now been programming for over 50 years) The Atlas was the most powerful computer available at the time and the language you programmed in was called “Atlas Autocode”. It was said that if Atlas was not working half of the UK’s computing power was lost.

Jodrell Bank

Turing

Top of the Pops

Studio

(an old church)

Marine Systems Research Unit of Plessey Company in Somerset, UK.

Waterlip Quarry in Somerset where we did a lot of work!!! But I also designed a number of Integrated Circuits for them.

I designed bipolar and MOS integrated circuits for the Plessey Company in 1968.

At the time they were state of the art. Left to Right:> Multi-emitter bipolar transistor for logic circuits. 4x16bit shift register and a Quad low impedance switch.

I missed out on a patent for the multi emitter transistor by one week. You win some, you lose some!!

It was actually patented by an engineer from RCA in the USA.