Catch the Wave

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Narrative chronological history commissioned from a professional company history writer. Deals with the business's development of computer based services to small businesses - opening of computer bureaux for data processing, development of early personal computers, writing of software, etc. Chapters include: 'The computer business is relatively new to the Midlands'; 'A two-centre business'; 'We have already achieved our basic objective'; 'Investors will have to be up early'; 'Sirius - seeing is believing'; 'Apricot - the dream machine'; 'ACT moves into the fast lane'; 'The music stops'; 'Software is the smart place to be'; 'Catching the next wave'