Data Recall Limited was a small British company, manufacturing one of the world's first all electronic word processors.

When I joined the company in February 1982 the current model in production was the Diamond 5. Based around the Zilog Z80 microprocessor with 64k bytes of memory, two 8 inch 360k byte floppy disk drives, a monochrome monitor large enough to display a full size A3 page and a very noisy daisywheel printer.

The company was based in Dorking. Manufacturing facilities were at Sondes Place House, to be more accurate in the converted stables next door, with offices in the high street.

I was employed in the 'test' department, testing, fault finding and repairing circuit boards, disk drives, printers etc.

During my employment, the company moved from Dorking to a factory unit opposite the railway station in Bookham, Surrey.

At this time, production began of the Diamond 7. This model was slightly more advanced. Much smaller physically but still based around the Z80 processor and still with only 64k of RAM but now with dual 8 inch 1M byte floppy disk drives!

By the beginning of 1984, Data Recall Ltd had been bought by OTL Ltd, a subsidiary of ITL Ltd. By early spring we had all been told we were all to be made redundant.

I didn't stay to the end, instead I was offered several jobs, one of which was with Racal Defence in Hersham. I took the job with ERA Technology in Leatherhead.