Date   : Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:03:19 -0000
From   : profpep@... (Mike Pepper)
Subject: Old advert - programming job in Bradford

> Perusing some of my old copies of Micro User I find the following 1/8
> page advert in several issues in 1988:
>
> Assembly, Machine Code Programmers Required
> For contract work on BBC, Sinclair, Commodore, Amstrad
> Please send CV and samples on BBC 5.25" disc to
> PO Box 3, Bradford, West Yorks, BD14 6AZ
>
> My first thought was: how on earth did I miss these adverts? I'd been
> trying to get people to pay me to program for ages, even then. But then,
> as now, my brain tends to edit adverts out of my conciousness in all
> media.
>
> My second thought was: I wonder who they were. There's no indication or
> anything other than the PO Box address. Any ideas?

My guess is Pace - they were in that area, (still are, in fact - Shipley), 
and were into micro peripherals in a fairly big way, in those days. These 
days they make set-top boxes amongst other things.

Mike