High-tech Bradford firm Sharedware has won its biggest ever contract from one of Britain's top four computer retailers Tiny Computers.

The firm, based in Saltaire, won the £500,000 deal after years of trying to persuade companies to take on its products.

It designs and manufactures a range of products which allow two people to use one PC, simultaneously and independently, just as if they had two PCs.

The new double-headed PC, incorporating the firm's new product Sharedware Savage, is on sale from Tiny Computers' 121 stores across the UK.

Sharedware, which was set up two years ago and employs six people, has sold thousands of its original product, the Sharedware Office, mainly in schools which can reduce their costs significantly.

Sharedware Savage will help the firm move into the enormous home computer market. Each user has their own monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers and can operate just as if they had their own PC - but at a fraction of the normal price.

Previously large PC manufacturers had been afraid that if they used Sharedware they would sell fewer computers.

Tiny Computers, one of the largest PC companies in the UK with 121 stores, is now selling the dual-headed PC with the Sharedware Savage installed in it.

"From now on, home and business users will be able to make maximum use of their investment in a PC," said Sharedware technical director Phil Jones.

"As Internet usage spirals, members of the family are increasingly queuing to use one PC. The Sharedware Savage overcomes this problem at a stroke.

"By integrating this into their PC system, Tiny Computers is the first retail PC manufacturer to recognise the tremendous market opportunity that this represents," said Richard Seddon, Sharedware's sales director.

The Sharedware Savage card is also widely available as a stand alone product and can be installed in any PC to create a multi-user system.

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