As each us of look at our lives, do we realize the importance of these electronic mechanisms we call computers? I shall now endeavor to elaborate upon how these mind tools have, and continue to affect me. Every morning, I awake to the awkward squawking of my alarm clock. Much to my dismay, I groggily smack the ‘off’ button and crawl out of bed. My first encounter of the day has just occurred. That small …showed first 75 words of 501 total…

…showed last 75 words of 501 total…studies. The PC is not limited to these fields, but I have focused my research along these paths. In nearly every activity that I attempt to accomplish, in some way I come into contact with an analytical engine. From the simple task of turning appliances on, to the complexity of powering up a Cray. We would be lost without our computers. Yes, without these machines our society, as we know it today, could not exist.