Comart’s new business plan before to London for meeting with CCTA to win support for restraining IBM then back home to Diana and national news of the NGA strike as Nuclear weapons opposition gathers pace
First to meet John Lamb and Ian Nickson to agree the mutual responsibilities in relation to writing Comart’s new business plan. Then to clear the mail and see the latest press cuttings on our group progress before sitting down with Peter King to discuss all manner of Byte Shop business and also his review. This review is made the more difficult by complex implications of relative Byte Shop and Comart profitability and the effect of Head Office changes on his Management Incentive Plan. Off in a hurry by car and train to London to meet the CCTA Deputy Director and Head of Technical Services, Ron Ballard.
This meeting to establish what the present position is with respect to the running contract for Microcomputers and press ways of ensuring the UK Micro Manufacturing industry is not overrun by IBM. A helpful and encouraging response. Back to the office and there to work late clearing outstanding matters and providing June with her priorities for tomorrow. Late home with Diana already in bed. News today of growing probabilities of a national NGA strike culminating in a TUC committee meeting where the position of support ends unclear. US forces in the Lebanon becoming increasingly besieged and the balance of argument in the nuclear debate turning very much against the government. A cold and frosty night promised to improve tomorrow.