The other day I happened across a great piece of forgotten communication technology from the 1980s called the ‘Interlaser’ by a small UK company named Modular Technology Ltd. This had been an optical communication system which could send either data or multiple phone lines back and forth via a beam of light up to 1km...Read More

Looking back at old technology it is often hard for us to get a sense of the behind-the-scenes infrastructure which was needed to support these important products. It is also difficult for us to grasp how quickly those infrastructures were forced to grow to keep up with consumer demand. While we are still surrounded today...Read More

During the 1980s the UK firm of Technophone was the future of the mobile phone industry. Started in 1984 by Swedish engineer Nils Martensson, this new tech start-up would burst onto the fledgling mobile phone industry offering the world’s first pocket cell phone and revolutionising the industry as it did so. Within the 7 short...Read More

As we celebrate 30 years of what has become the marvel of the World Wide Web it is perhaps worth remembering back even further to where our digital age really all began. While the American Claude Shannon and Bell Labs are rightfully credited with being the founders of the information age, we Brits can still...Read More

  (as published in West Country Life-Dec 2017) I must admit that I was not really into Tech when I was younger, at least no more than your average person. As a child of the 1980s and 90s of course I remember our first computer which was the Sinclair Spectrum in a bespoke hefty metal...Read More