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Tom Royal

Tom is the Deputy Editor of Computeractive, and has been wrangling home computers since he learned to program an Atari ST (with its whopping 1MB of memory) in the early 1990s.

Today he uses far too many Windows and Linux PCs, spends far too much time taking not-terribly-good photos and builds websites.

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