Busy month organising the Comart Group and the industry as IBM launches its microcomputers. Family illnesses but time to ourselves in London but national strikes and the Harrods car bomb set a grim note as the US loses planes over the Lebanon and the east-West arms limitation talks struggle and 3000 protest at Greenham Common
A very busy month of work organising Comart, The Byte Shops, Xitan and the Group, encountering problems and solving them and also laying plans for increased investment in future products all whilst completing Company Administration and Annual Reports. Trouble with executives and directors but then a fairly successful Xmas dinner/dance for 140 of my staff . All this, whilst also leading the British Microcomputer Industry in its fight for a level playing field in the face of a US and Japanese onslaught and their national policies to favour and protect their own industries.
I start an anti-IBM campaign and win CCTA support. In my own time, I was reading 17thC history and getting my achievement of arms designed between times managing the ducks with Daniel and Debbie Daniel starts his exams, getting told off for borrowing money and not working hard enough on his schoolwork and I snatch him from a girls arms at his school disco. Family coughs, colds and then Debbie has chicken pox! Diana and I get a day or two to ourselves in London as the month closes. The national news is full shipyard and NGA strikes and then the Provisional IRA Harrods car bomb kills seven people and injures scores of others. A man hunts follows in the Republic and talks begin here on banning the Provisional Sinn Fein The UDR were also questioned about atrocities. The Syrians shoot down two US planes over The Lebanon. Russians call off Geneva Arms talks. Latest Women’s Lib Bill lost in parliament. Russians and the US struggle in Geneva arms limitation talks. 3000 people form a ring around Greenham Common and HMS Invincible refused berth in Sydney.