All of my Computer stuff is Computational!!
Computational threads for me are working on my delightfully fast HP Envy Tower desktop computer, purchased in June, 2026 after managing to **completely** kill my 2+ year-old PC as I tried to move it from the Windows operating system to Linux Mint (!)…
My PC sits on my home office desk, allowing me to work with Roots Magic on my Ancestral family tree, do the frequent checking of interesting things around today’s endless news of the online world of the web & others
I do so love getting to eView the world ( well, when I’m not out & about, enjoying Mother Nature, or relaxing in my Yard!! ) using our super-fast WiFi connection that surrounds my home ( securely linked into my cable system, which does have a monthly expense! ) where visuals on my screen at all hours of the day & night vary from boring stuff to stunning thoughts!
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My desktop PC operates with a large-screen LCD-TV as the monitor ( which I also switch to my PS4 game box ) with a USB keyboard & mouse… my current HP ( shared above ) has 32Gb of RAM, 32 cores and a very high-speed powerful NVidia GeForce RTX 3050 8GB board as well as an internal 11-tByte with an external 6-tByte HDD which I partitioned into multiple drives: System, Work, Storage, Backups, etc…
I also subscribe to the professional Microsoft Office tools ( for $139 annually ), using them for writing, coding, calculating, etc in highly sophisticated ways—I save the work to my PC folders and to my many, many online pages ( like this one), or I head off to places like social media or to my gMail, printing relevant reports or records ( for storage ) on our WiFi-based Epson printer ( which can print in color! ) or saving to my PDF files… have been doing this since the early 80’s!!
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These things are all under the control of my 64-bit professional version of Windows 11 where a desired dual-boot mode set up attempt sadly failed… a run under Win-7 or Linux Mint was refused by Win11…
I purchased my very 1st PC with the startup of my Creative Logic Software, LLC business in 1985 as a $3,500 deductible expense… An IBM PC/XT that lived in my office & connected to a dial-up 2400 BPS modem, pretty fast for those days!!
To compare some interesting threads, a text monitor was my interface ( no color ), dual 5.25″ floppies ( 1 for the program, 1 for data ) with no HDD, as that was just too expensive! I used a 132-column matrix text printer ( just like the one shown ) to print my program code… That PC ran with a single-core 8086 16-bit CPU ( called the “iAPX 86,” released to the marketplace several years earlier on June 8th, 1978 ) & 640k of RAM which I upgraded later to reach the max. capacity of 1024k with an extension card
The OS in use at that time was prior to any version of Windows, so I was just running under DOS 1.1 ( as shown in the snap ) with a text-based command interface. The apps I used were Word Perfect for formal documents, Lotus 1-2-3 for managing the math in my business, and a simple DOS text editor for writing & editing my code
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I had earlier put a Tandy TRS-80 into my basement with a modem connection for a game-station around 1987… no HDD or floppies, data was stored onto a cassette tape recorder. One of my kids & his friend ( each at the age of 8 ) would sit together writing an equivalent to the Dungeons & Dragons game in Basic code… amazing!—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
With today’s well-connected iPad, iPhones and laptops, mobility is an absolute charm… as an example, I actually edited this page ( a while back! ) with my iPad whilst sitting in my armchair late on a Friday night, watching the Bill Maher 25-year Anniversary Special!—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
Looking back a little further, Computation became my lifetime career with the very unexpected retirement from my disabling accident serving in the British Army in 1978, where I had started out in 1971. The UK government then provided me with 6-months of free retraining, bringing a restart to my life at Burroughs Corp…
Computation-related activities continue today, in spite of my forced retirement a few years ago… please feel welcome to share any thoughts of comments on this page? Cheers!