Monthly Archives: September 2023

This olive oil from Crete is among the absolute best I have tasted. Luckily I can buy this one as well as many others from my local Yasou Café.

The first actual computer that I ever programmed? In my case that would be something that in my day was called a mini-computer. Mini in the sense that it was no larger than the average refrigerator (at least when you included the rack it was sitting in). And here it is, the Alpha/LSI-2 from Computer … Continue reading »

As a recently retired software developer is has been fun to look back at where it all started. In my youth I swore by Texas Instruments calculators, although to tell you the truth they were not very durable. This is the first one I had that could be programmed.