Ben Cheese
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Ben Cheese (1955 – 21 January 2001) was the engineer who got Sinclair's ZX Microdrives to work. Authors Ian Adamson and Richard Kennedy, in their book Sinclair and the "Sunrise" Technology, writes that "it seems only fair to note that it was the tenacity and imagination of R&D staffer Ben Cheese that got the product [i.e., the Microdrive] to the market".
When Sinclair sold up, Cheese formed a company called Flare Technology with two other ex-Sinclair engineers, John Mathieson and Martin Brennan. Besides his engineering work, Ben Cheese also did some mildly subversive cartoons for the Sinclair in-house newsletter ("WHAM!", or "What's Happening At Milton").
