A delightful conversation with Amit Roy.
Way back in 1978 I started a company called Dataview. It was based in Colchester, Essex and I sold Commodore Computers; the ‘PET”, standing for Personal Electronic Transactor.
Now I was a word-processing salesman for IBM previously and didn’t know a thing about computers. I operated out of a small shop at first in Church Street and people came into the shop and played around with my demonstration models. Unbelievably I sold some!
Later I got involved with a software program known as Wordcraft. The first comprehensive word processing program for the PET. Indeed, I had the exclusive world distribution rights to Wordcraft. One thing lead to another and soon I was operating from much larger premises down at Portreeves House at East Bay, still in Colchester.
I appointed a Head of Marketing, Amit Roy, and the company grew and grew. I focused on appointing distributors across the world, and that included Dan Gomez in southern California, and he became a close friend being my best man when Jeannie and I were married in 2010.
Anyway, back to the story of Dataview. Eventually I sold out and escaped the country (and taxes) by moving to a yacht in the Greek side of Cyprus before April 15th. I went to Larnaca Marina. That was in 1986.
On Sunday, through a link from a mutual friend, I called Amit, the first time we had spoken since 1986. We had the most delightful of telephone conversations.
Amit was born in Burma, he is now 79, and lost his wife some 13 years ago. The counsellor who saw Amit after the death of his very dear wife said that he had to be strong and to take up something he could become passionate about. Amit joined the Colchester Photographic Society and took up studying again, in photography, and became a very good photographer.
With Amit’s permission I share some of his photographs with you.
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These are just a few but they are superb; absolutely marvellous.
That is the most welcome of connections – thanks to Roger Davis for suggesting it!
Learning from Dogs 
Those photos are inspired. Thanks for sharing.
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Susan, there are more than 70 to admire from Amit on that Colchester Photographic Society website. They are truly inspiring!
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Looking forward to them.
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Thank you for sharing your story Paul … and Amit’s wonderful photographs!
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They are superb, Val, don’t you think? I may post some more of his photos.
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A nice story. Great photos from Amit. That last photo in particular Paul is stunning!
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Sorry Margaret, not back long from shopping so maybe too late for you to see my reply today. But, yes, that one of the horse taken by Ami is incredible. Amit is certainly master of his craft!
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Still waiting to hear the story of that dangerous trip you took (once?) that you dropped a teaser about years ago….
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I will extract a small piece of my second book, as yet unpublished, concerning the knockdown, in a couple of days, Mr P. Thanks for saying that.
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I’ll look forward to that!
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In fact, Colin, you have done me a favour. For I got the details of my knockdown all wrong. Jeannie said that a long time ago I had written about it and I have now found the account. What I now have to do is to correct that chapter in the book and include the correct version. I will also publish that on the blog! Thank you!
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Beautiful photos and interesting story. Thanks.
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So glad you liked it!
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