Ken Sadler was a young Industrial Design Graduate from the Royal College of Art in late 1960 when he was asked to join the small but influential design consultancy firm of Wilkes & Ashmore in Horsham, West Sussex. Headed up by Ted Wilkes and Peter Ashmore, the firm had been making a name for itself...Read More

It is fair to say that peripherals rarely get as much adoration as the computers they support, but back in late 1963 when English Electric LEO Computers (EELC) released their Lector they were more than happy to announce it as “…the computer users dream come true”.  Lector was an early Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) machine...Read More