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He also has an EPROM programmer, a Teletype 43 Terminal and an acoustic coupler. He is the designer of B-Bug, Nasbug and Nas-sys, which were all designed for his own purposes, and later made available to Nascom. His resposibility on the INMC is software problems, and software related corespondence.

Derek Brough joined the committee in October, is 36, is married with one child and lives in Barnet. He has a B.Sc, and is a lecturer in computing sciences at a London college. He has played with computers since school. He has an unexpanded Nascom 1 fitted with a number of hardware goodies, including joystick controls, and an interrupt driven IBM printer. He also has access to expanded Nascoms through his work (but says he usually can’t get near them). He has recently undertaken the incredible task of re-assembling the complete INMC library so that the bulk of it may be used with Nas-sys. His main responsibility with the INMC is the library, and he is the nearest to Librarian we have got. He is also re-organizing the library to make sense of the various breeds of programs now coming in; ie: minimum system Nasbug, expanded system Nasbug, expanded system Nas-sys, Tiny Basic and 8K Basic.

Kerr Borland is 35 and he says, “I was born to be a rich man’s son, unfortunately, my father didn’t work hard enough”. He also says, ”I am qualified for absolutely nothing, and spends most of my time doing what I am best qualified for!”. He has also been known to say that he is a most likeable fellow, and we have noticed that he often tells us what a modest person he is. Kerr is Sales Director of Nascom, is married with one or more children (we are not sure whether it’s us who don’t know, or Kerr; Ed.), and lives in Totteridge. As president of the INMC he is our ‘inside contact’ with Nascom.

Paul Greenhalgh hails from the the north Country, is single, 24, and lives in Chesham. He has worked for an Electricity Board, and an electronic security firm and until recently he worked for Nascom. He is now employing his talents with a components supply company and Nascom distributor. He doesn’t have a Nascom, but since leaving Nascom is saving his pennies to get one. He has tinkered with computers since leaving university, where he graduated with a B.Sc. On the INMC he is responsible for getting all the bits for the newsletter together, final editorial, pasteup, getting the newsletter printed, and distibution.

David Hunt is 34, lives in Harrow, has three children, and is still married despite his Nascom. He was trained as an electronics development engineer, leaving college with an HNC. After leaving the electronics field he went into retailing, starting in Hi-fi and later with a retail electronics company (not the same one as Paul), where he has been General Manager for the past five years. He has only been playing with computers for about 3 years, and was in the process of designing a kit for his company to market when Nascom 1 came along. He promptly dropped his own design, and is now a Nascom distributor. He owns a 32K Nascom 1 running Nas-sys and Nasbug, ZEAP, Naspen and 8K Basic. All firmware is kept on an 8K EPROM board, and his Nascom is fitted with programable graphics and high speed CUTS interfaces, he also has a TI 745 terminal. As INMC chairman, he keeps an eye on the hardware side of things, and acts as editor before passing copy on to Paul.