Background: After graduating in 1972 I worked in Local Government admin for 15 years. Then I joined a local company (Stockton Computer Services/Mowbrays) as a programmer, dealing with accounting/payroll systems. This progressed from our own software (installations of which are still supported) to a substantial proportion of Sage. I was made redundant at the end of 2002, but as by that time I was the totality of the software dept I have retained all the software and the support of longstanding customers.