Editing Jeff Minter (section)

===Pre-commercial career (early years)===
Minter began programming computers at a young age. He wrote the game ''Deflex'' for the [[Commodore PET]] in 1979.<ref name="minotaurproject.co.uk">{{cite web|url=http://minotaurproject.co.uk/blog/?p=302|title=Skeletons in the Closet: my own early Vic 20 efforts|work=minotaurproject.co.uk}}</ref> However it would not be until a long illness during a university year that Minter's talents would develop in any meaningful way. Following a three-month stint due to a sudden eruption of [[pericarditis]], in which Minter was restricted to lying on his back and was confined to his bed between November 1981 and January 1982, boredom led him to take up computer programming in earnest to pass the time.<ref name="homecomputing">"Business Born in Bed". Home Computing Weekly Issue 4, 29 March – 4 April 1983 on page 11</ref>

Upon recovery, Minter teamed up with Richard Jones, a fellow pupil, and together they started writing their own games on their school's Commodore PET.<ref name=ls-history-part-7/> They soon parted ways. Jones went on to commercial projects, some of them in the software market (e.g., ''[[Interceptor Micros]]'').