DISABILITY TECH PROVISION

Desktop Computers and Utilising Two High Definition Monitors, the Benefits to Me

I’m disabled with walking and blurred vision through my right eye, two screens support my writing, and engagement with society.

The author's own photograph from his office setup.

Many people have asked me this question over the years that I have been fascinated with computers and the hardware that goes along with them. Since the very dawn of the first shops to sell the Sinclair ZX81 back in the 1980s, I have been utterly engrossed with them.

I recall pestering, and yes I believe this to be the right word to use here, because a day never passed by when I did not let up on the subject of this want or need to have this, of what I thought like a child, to be this ‘out of this world’ powerful computer.

Oh, I can hear people shouting from the rooftops now,

‘seriously, out of this world… the ZX81?’

But yes. It was then! I was only 9 years old when this came out onto the sales market, and like most kids, I had never ever set eyes upon one before, let alone ever dreamed of owning one too.

Owning one of these was much akin to letting a…