Two of his earliest years were spent in Singapore he learned to count in Chinese before he could in English and most of the remainder of his childhood and adolescence was based in Canada, first in Montreal and later in Toronto. It is probably due to that Canadian upbringing that he still finds it difficult to say words like lorry or telly with a straight face His major interest, apart from computers, is in English country furniture. In addition to contributing many articles on the subject to various periodicals and academic journals, he wrote a monthly column in a specialist magazine and has so far had three books published. He was formerly a specialist consultant to Sothebys and is presently the furniture consultant to the Mary Rose Trust.He blames his avid interest in computers on genetics; his father was an aircraft design engineer specialising in electronics. Nevertheless, he has managed to combine his enthusiasm for antiques and for modern technology by researching the history and methods of the earliest computing machines. His small collection of electronic dinosaurs includes an Altair 8800, one of the very first personal computers.His first love has always been hardware but he is beginning to find the software side, particularly the exciting potential of the Internet, even more compelling. In addition to running his own business, he currently works for a large computer firm in the south of England.

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