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The PC archive


  • Interactive web today, static web yesterday, the PC before that.

    Here you can search archive material from David Tebbutt and Martin Banks as they rode the first (PC) wave.


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  • Location: United Kingdom

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Biography

Programme Director, Freeform Dynamics

www.freeformdynamics.com

David works as an industry analyst specialising in the human and environmental aspects of IT, with a particular interest in areas such as personal productivity, collaboration, social computing and sustainable computing. He writes frequently for a variety of business and IT titles, mainly online these days. He also oversees Freeform Dynamics’ workshop and training developments.


David occasionally coaches teams and individuals in how to deal with the press.


BrainStorm

www.brainstormsw.com

David designed and wrote a personal information management tool called BrainStorm in 1981. It still sells today. Marck Pearlstone has been the lead programmer for many years. In October 2008, the business was taken over by an American company but Marck and David are still quite close to the action.


Background

In previous lives, he was an IT professional for 11 years (programmer to IT manager), a management skills trainer for three years, he relaunched and edited Personal Computer World in its early days. He was a journalist for 28 years and was shortlisted eight times for national writing awards. He won three times. He was technical director of Caxton Software from 1981 to 1984. And he ran a media skills training business for 20 years.