Tom Hinchliffe of ICL High Perfoemance Technology 1995

Tom Hinchliffe, Managing Director of ICL High Performance Technology, reflects on the progress of technology in the Science Museum with the original Babbage mechanical computer. His company, which is based in Manchester with 1,000 employees and makes mainframe computers, has just won the 1995 UK Quality Awards - the country's premiere award for excellence that assesses all aspects of business practice and quality control.