Selling computers - Part 3

PC's and networks became the main business, but we also managed the Reuters and later the Telerate networks in Gibraltar which provided real-time financial information to banks before the Internet took off.

We also ran a Bulletin Board System, which supported four dial in lines and had Internet email via a dial up to California.

Originally we used mobile radios, and then a paging system. This was very useful before digital mobile phones were introduced locally.

We installed kilometers of network cabling for clients and helped set up one of the first gaming companies on the Rock who brought in a disk array which at the time was huge, 500GB storage, and supported five racks of servers.

Although all our systems turned out to be Y2K compliant, by 2005 the products and directors were tired and the company ceased trading - although some of the original clients still call me when their computers don't start. One lawyer complained his printer had packed in and he only had it for nine years...