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Dedication

 
This site has been missing a dedication for far too long and is hereby dedicated to Mr. Keith Coulthard, without whom there is no doubt at all it would never have existed. Keith lived nextdoor to me throughout my childhood and encouraged my parents to upgrade my Vic-20 to an Acorn Electron because he already had quite a large games collection that he could share with me.

In many ways, Keith was the original architect of Acorn Electron World. He transcribed many of the listings that eventually became the companion discs on this site, and collected the instructions and passwords for many of the professional releases here. Not to mention all of the programs that he archived that otherwise might have been lost forever. And, of course, it was his actions that got me interested in the Acorn Electron in the first place. In fact, during my childhood years, my parents used to moan that I spent more time in his house than my own!

Unfortunately Keith died just before I became involved with the Electron User Group and the internet made our endeavours available to everyone. Therefore he never got to see the fruits of his labours in digital form. No doubt he would be staggered by the ease and speed at which everything is now available, and he would probably have contributed much more to the project than you could possibly imagine.

In his absence however, I dedicate the site to him and hope that he is somewhere up there watching it grow and grow...