Mannerisms

"We had an East End/West Indian character working with us - a very bright fellow - his mother was an English Cockney and his father was West Indian , and he had this extreme Cockney accent”, recalls Potter.

“We had this game with this funny little character like Pacman with an endearing look to him and we didn't know what to call him, when this guy comes in with his Cockney accent and says: 'Why don't you call him 'Ungry 'Orace'.”

“So we did - but with H's - and we did a whole series with Horace. Horace went on to do anything - he went skiing - and there was Horace and the spiders - he had to battle against these things.”

“These are the origins, the genesis, of the games which people play now, and we were part of creating that”, remembers Potter, “ it was great fun."

Profitable too. That year, Psion's second year of trading, turnover was £1.6 million for a £600,000 profit achieved on a capital base of a few tens of thousands of pounds.

"It was a very nice return on capital”, understates Potter, “10,000 percent".