It all started on 1^st October 1978 when Peter commenced employment with Gross Cash Register as their first Island based engineer. At that time NCR controlled the Island market with two Island based engineers and Gross had a very limited market share. At that time all cash registers were all mechanical full of levers and springs which required regular maintenance and because Gross didn’t have a full time engineer customers understandably made NCR their preferred choice. Working from a greenhouse in Rushen Abbey Gardens and with a limited machine population giving optimum on site service was a pathway to sales and increasing machine population as Peter always believed give good service and the sales will look after themselves.

Chubb ignored the Japan road and developed a range of electronic Cash Registers in the UK. However these were unreliable and expensive compared to the Japanese machines starting to flood the market, resulting in Chubb withdrawing from the market leaving making all its engineers redundant on 4^th January 1985.

A phone call in 1987 from Mr Walker changed everything. Mr Walker wanted to sell the Cash Register arm of his company and asked if he was interested. Not having the money Peter could not afford to say no and a visit to his local bank manager secured the necessary funding.

Now Peter had a customer base in excess of 90% of Island users and contracts with UK companies to look after some multiples on the Island.