当小组中的退伍军人成长时，计算机非常罕见且昂贵，但是在任何有钱和技能的人都可以构成小型个人系统的年龄段。 Veres说，他在家中所做的与他在工作中所做的事情不同，可以作为他的娱乐。在工作中，他处理硬件；当他在家时，他专注于软件阅读编程手册，并为自己的计算机创建新软件。
(When the veterans in the group were growing up, computers were quite rare and expensive, but Veres went to school in the age when anyone with a little money and skill could make up a small personal system. Veres says that what he does at home is different enough from what he does at work to serve as recreation for him. At work he deals with hardware; when he's at home, he focuses on software-reading programming manuals and creating new software for his own computer.)