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Bob Denton has been a pioneer for a number of technologies – see bobdenton.com. But it’s the pioneers who often got shot by the Native Americans!

Bob has spent much of his life in the pioneering, promoting and selling of various technologies:

• heavily involved in the design and development of cash registers and electronic point-of-sale terminals, working at machine code level with the very earliest microprocessor development systems, and on the committee that defined the universal bar code;
• pioneered industrial applications for coherent fibreoptic scopes, developed originally as medical endoscopes. Bob expanded their use to the inspection of airframe, turbines, weapons, castings…;
• as telecommunications privatised, Bob distributed early telephone answerers and cordless phones, and much later was involved in an initiative to unify fixed and mobile phone services;
• appointed Sales Director at Dixons Stores Group’s distribution operation, ACE, he launched a number of the early game consoles and other electronics products as this market proliferated;
• as Retail Controller at Granada TV Rentals, Bob was charged with investigating and managing the test and subsequent move from its rental base into the retailing of TVs, VCRs…;
• Bob developed a viewdata-based forerunner to the Internet, called Micronet 800, and developed single-chip modem network adaptors for the leading PCs of the time to access it;
• involved in the launches of a number of the early games and home computers including the Mattel Intellivision, Mettoy Dragon 32, Texas Instruments 99/4, the Oric 32, Bob was later appointed as Sinclair’s exclusive distributor for the ZX81, Spectrum and QL for the UK. The agreement later expanded to include France and the People’s Republic of China;
• Bob was event director of trade and public exhibitions, such as Property Business Show, Top PA, LIVE! The Consumer Electronics Show, MacExpo (UK, NL and D) and ran roadshows and events all over Europe for Adobe, Nikon and Quark.

Bob was born in Bristol, UK and now lives in Thame, in rural South Oxfordshire. Bob is married, has two children and five grandchildren, enjoying his ‘retirement’:

• Bob’s first novel Still Water was published by Pegasus, a Vanguard Press title. Living in Spain for five years following that publication did not help with its promotion, though it did provide Bob the opportunity to write more broadly;
• He later self-published Still Water on Amazon (worldwide) adding two further thrillers, Gene Genie (as part of the series) and Route of Evil;
• The PC Pioneers and 100 PC Moments – a look at the amazing people who brought us the PC and the Net;
• Bob has since pursued a number of writing initiatives:
• Artifice, an AI company is subborned to pursue an Iraqi warlord’s revenge;
• AI-Quint, a workaround opens up new potentials, but will an IPO halt it.
• Displaced and Denounced, Fan Fiction, creating modern settings for Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Cities;
• Bob has completed a four-book history series – Living History!
• Bob has a website called Anecdotes, at www.bobdenton.com, for his work-in-progress;
• Family History – Denton Family Bible, traces the family back to the year 1060, and beyond.

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