There's nothing Terry Farr enjoys more than applying his many years of operating experience to extract the maximum potential from a machine. When Terry first realised that the Merit touch screen machines could, if coaxed by a knowledgable operator, produce a remarkably good income using the successful in-house tournament.

Terry realised that if machines were equipped with modems, a national management system of tournaments could be run from a single computer. Terry quickly became one of the leading advocates in pushing Merit to develop the next generation of machines on which a whole series of tournaments could be run on locations, at regional and national level.