Born 1945 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
Educated at Chesterfield Grammar School (1957-64) and Imperial College,
London where I took a BSc in Organic Chemistry followed by a
post-graduate diploma in Biochemistry (1964-68). Worked as Research
Assistant to Steven and Hilary Rose on the Pelican book "Science and
Society" (1968-9).  Began a career in journalism working in the underground press between
1969 and 1972, where I was a columnist for Frendz magazine, music and
book reviewer and reviews editor for Ink and Oz magazines and finally
production manager for Oz magazine. There I met Felix
Dennis and we
co-founded Bunch Books (now Dennis Publishing). Production Director of Bunch/Dennis from 1972 to 1981 when I became Managing Editor of the UK's first PC magazine, Personal Computer World. Following the sale of PCW to VNU in 1983 I was briefly Managing Editor of the short-lived software magazine "Soft". In 1984 I became a Contributing Editor to the US computer magazine Byte until that magazine's closure in 1998, during which time I contributed over 150 feature articles. I'm also Real World Editor and columnist for PC Pro magazine (a Dennis title) and remain a non-executive director of Dennis Publishing.  "Object Oriented Forth" (Academic Press 1983) "A Tutorial Introduction to Concurrent Programming in Occam" (Blackwell Scientific 1987 "Cool Rules: Anatomy of an Attitude" with David Robins (Reaktion 2000) "New Penguin Dictionary of Computing" (Penguin 2002) "Concise Penguin Dictionary of Computing" (Penguin 2003) 
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