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title: 2022.51: The history of Pace
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title: The history of Pace
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creator: Farren, Mike
description: The story of Pace Microtechnology from its foundation in the early 1980s to its acqusition by Arris in the 2010s. Based on original research by Mike Farren, including extensive interviews with the founders David Hood and Barry Rubery and key manager Rob Fleming.
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subject: Electrical and electronic engineering
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extracted text: PACE MICRO TECHNOLOGY LTD. A Summary History Of The Digital Revolution: Bradford, Salts Mill Author: Mike Farren May 2021 1 Introduction and Acknowledgements The Saltaire Collection is not confined to Victorian history and the collection’s historians and writers are recording the important stories of the twentieth and twenty first centuries. Amongst these, second only in importance to the history of Jonathan Silver, his family, and the rescue and transformation of Salts Mill, is the story of one of Jonathan’s first tenants in the mill. The tenant company was PACE Micro Technology Ltd. PACE was founded by three individuals living and working in the Bradford District: David Hood, Rob Fleming, and Barry Rubery. David had the visionary ideas; Rob was the logistics expert; and Barry a skilled sales expert. They were joined later by Graham Mitchell whose engineering expertise was invaluable to the company’s growth and product range. Others who became important members of the staff team and partners in business are noted. From its foundation in 1982, whilst the first directors were operating from David Hood’s bedroom in Scholemoor, PACE commenced business selling Apple II computer software in the UK, purchased at lower prices from Europe, then began the manufacture of data communication modems and later satellite TV receivers and Video Recorders, all products that were previously either unavailable or too costly for the UK market, rapidly establishing st themselves at the forefront of the digital revolution. By the late 1990s and into the 21 century, PACE was collaborating with major, well-known tech giants such as BSkyB and Amstrad. This local business had become an international multi-million-pound enterprise and its founders mirror the important part played by Sir Titus Salt during the earlier industrial revolution. Two of the three founders of PACE have enabled this significant history to be recorded through participating in interviews with Mike Farren and Maggie Smith…
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