 It was while at Stanwell Secondary School that he was introduced by a school friend to Tim Hartnell, the co-owner of Interface Publication, the other owner being his school friend's mother, Sue North.His first published computer programme was "The Elephant's Graveyard", written for the Sinclair ZX81 and published in the magazine "ZX Computing" in August 1982.Shaw's first book, "Games for your ZX Spectrum", followed at the end of 1982 and was published by Virgin Books in conjunction with Interface Publications and was an early title in a series of "Games For Your.