Peter Dowson

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English. 63 this year. Married 42 years, three grownup children, two grandchildren. Programmer since 1963, first working on LEO (the first business computer in the world). Got into personal computers when the first appeared (6502 breadboard, Commodore Pet 2001, Apple).

Wrote Wordcraft, the successful Word Processor, and the first program to use a dongle (which I invented along with my colleague). Got into FS programming with FS4 (QuickScene and an EPIC interface, as well as some BGL merge/rationalisation utilities).

Full time on FS stuff now since FS2000 but self-financed till FS2004. Hobbies outside FS include N-gauge model railways, real steam railways around the world, table tennis (played since aged 12), and -- until my eyesight deteriorated -- astronomy. Flew for real for a while but never got a license because of severe tunnel vision and glare/fog (still getting worse year by year) due to hereditary Retinitis Pigmentosa. For same reason, not allowed to drive and don't get about much without my dear wife or some friendly accompaniment.