Sunday, June 22, 2025
Commercial Breaks: The Battle For Santa's Software
Sunday, June 8, 2025
The Hunt For Artic House
Artic House, Main Street, Brandesburton, Driffield, YO25
Right from the start, Artic was a company forever being put on and then taken off my
to-do
list. The problem was simple. Artic only had two addresses; one was a house and the other couldn't be located in the real world. This is suboptimal for a blog dedicated to tracking down and photographing the offices of old software houses. I kept a draft page on standby in case I turned up
anything relevant. It sat in the background of this blog for a couple of years until one Sunday around the middle of 2024 I was in a
ruthless mood and culled it and a load of others on the grounds they
would never be used. So long, The Sales Curve. See you
in hell, Aardvark Software. No room for you, The Electronic Pencil
Company. Goodbye, Artic. And that
was it. Deleted. Done. Dusted. I'd never follow Artic up now. Then I
got an email. Most of what follows is Neil's fault.
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16 Park Street, Bath, Avon, BA1 I don't think I believed my friend when he said he had a computer at home. In fact, I don't think...
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People are still making physical objects and you should support them.
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Alpha House, 10 Carver Street, Sheffield, S1 It's the eve of the millennium and you fall into conversation with an 8-bit time traveller...
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1/2 King Street, Ludlow, Shropshire So we're doing magazines now are we? Well yes, obviously. The tagline of this blog is "seeking ...
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35 Rassau Industrial Estate, Ebbw Vale, Gwent, NP3 British hardware never had the same international profile as British software. The Enterp...
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178 West Street/ 1 Orange Street, Sheffield This town ain't big enough for both of us. Software houses often cluster. EA has created a...