Helen Reidy

Photo from "Crash" Magazine, Issue 25, February 1986

Helen Reidy

Helen Reidy is credited with David Netherwood on the title page of the Memotech educational title First Letters, and, although I do not have a copy, I suspect that she was also probably involved with Word and Picture.

Helen was a school teacher, and I suspect that this combination of her career and computing skills led to Memotech using her to develop their educational software offerings prior to release of the MTX computer in 1983.

Helen was one half of the husband and wife team, who along with her husband David, formed Microsphere, a small, independent company who produced a number of games for the ZX Spectrum, including the best known and critically acclaimed Skool Daze, published in 1984.

Feature on Skool Daze from Retrogamer Magazine in 2006, reprinted on Pixelatron in 2010.

You can now play it on your iPhone / iPad !

The company's last product, Contact Sam Cruise, was released in 1986, Citing software piracy for lack of sales along with not having an interest development of software for 16 bit computers, the company was wound up and David chose to pursue a career in electrical engineering, eventually forming Electroprojects UK Ltd of which Helen is also a director.

Sources

1. Microsphere Wikipedia

2. Skool Daze Pixelatron