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Original IBM PC (4.77MHz 8088, 256KB RAM, monochrome) · Original IBM PC XT (4.77MHz 8088, 512KB, 10MB HDD, monochrome) · Original Compaq Deskpro (7.14MHz 8086, 640KB, 20MB HDD, CGA graphics)

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Commodore VIC-20 · C64 original · C64 Terminator edition · C16 · Amiga 500 · Amiga 600 · Amiga 600 HD · Amiga 1200  Acorn Electron · A3010 (Archimedes) · A4000 (Archimedes)  Others Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K · Dragon 32

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I realised that I was working in Peterborough, in Insurance, at the same time as Mark, and UT and Countrywide / Misys rang very loud retrospective alarm bells.

If anything, he was remarkably charitable about United Technologies. UT had probably the worst man-management in existence, lousy pay, ludricous shift hours and unattainable production targets.
In consequence, at shop floor level, only the otherwise unemployable, desperate and students on vacation who had missed the pub jobs ever worked there (my #2 son had a temporary holiday job there one summer.) The turnover rate was tremendous - few lasted more than a month before being sacked or walking out.
God only knows how Mark stuck it out so long.
( We were asked to quote one year for their Insurance covers and one of my colleagues carried out the risk assessment survey. He refused to write a report, just sent a memo to the Underwriters that said "No Quote")

Countrywide always struck those of us looking from the sidelines as an organisation that didn't really have a clue what its role was supposed to be - it went through more changes in direction than a fairground bumper car.
(At one time I seem to remember Geoff Capes worked for them in some sort of PR role?)
The senior management talked the talk, but never seemed to walk the walk, and even when Mysis took them over it never seemed to significantly improve. Eventually as a company we decided to have no further dealings with them.

Happy days

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One complaint though....

NOT ONE X-WING GAME IN THE TOP 25!!!! COME ON!

i dont really know what I'm doing but it looks good!