MGT - The London / Cambridge / Swansea Days

Hello MGT People,

My name is Jess and I was Bruce and Alan's first employee. I was living in London and doing scaffolding. One day we did a scaffold, I think it was North London, maybe some place called Hensley or Henly or something... and we were puttng up a scaffold in the vicinity of this tiny satellite dish store that sold dishes and did installs. I forget exactly how it went, but I walked in and they hired me to sell satellite dishes. I worked for Vishy H. (owner) and Bharat D. (2nd in command). Seemed an okay gig. Maybe not as fun as scaffolding, but I was looking for something different. Anyway...

There were these two guys who were, I think, funded by Vishy and were working out of a little corner of the building. They had designed and were bringing to market a bus interface for Sinclair computers called the Disciple. One of them was a seriously talented hardware designer and the other was an equally talented marketing guy. Their names were Bruce and Alan.

After not too long, and to my eternal good fortune, Bruce and Alan parted ways with the satellite shop and asked me to come to Cambridge with them as their first employee. I have never regretted saying yes.

My account pic here was taken by Simon Goodwin in 1988 and is from Crash #50, when Simon visited us in Cambridge.

So, hi :)

I was saddened today to learn that Bruce passed away last year. I think Alan is still around. I hope so. Bruce taught me how to code; Alan taught me how to be professional.

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