My Abacus Hobby: 4 Abaci in 30 Days!

Hello World! The text output of my C programming language compiler reads, “My abacus hobby consists of a 30 day old 15-digit Soroban as Cranmer abacus, a 20 day old 7-digit modified Suanpan, a 5 day-old 7-digit hanging Suanpan and a 0 day-old unmodified 7-digit Suanpan.” ☺️

Today, I received my 4th abacus or 3rd Suanpan or a duplicate of my 2nd abacus or 1st Suanpan, but I’m keeping this one as “unmodified”, allowing slippery beads, for use by persons with eyesight.

Yes, I wrote a computer program in the C programming language to keep track of when I purchased each abacus! ☺️ That means, I’m not planning on doing any specific arithmetic on either of them, as I can simply solve math just by writing code.

My abacus hobby is actually my science project, in testing my cognition & dexterity skills with the handicaps of arthritis & vision impairment. My 4th abacus is already difficult for me, but I can do my best in setting the beads while attempting to move others by mistake.

Thanks for reading my latest blog post about my abacus hobby! Have a Great Day!

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Happily-Married, comfortably poor, permanently disabled and totally BLIND. A Terrorism SURVIVOR that's still SURVIVING Terrorism + post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Scientist since 1977, Acoustician since 1979, Computer Scientist/Programmer since 1982, Seismologist since 1988, Criminologist (Behavioral Scientist) since 1992, and many more! Also, had worked in two civilian and one military virology labs in the USA between 1993 and 2003. A Generation X, Filipino-American US expat, living in The Philippines, whom was naturally-born in Boston, grew up mostly in Seattle, some in Chicago, and have lived in Anchorage & San Francisco. Became permanently-disabled in 2003 due to health-related illness, ending my moonlighting career as an independent private investigator in the USA. RETIRED independent developer of computing & electronics technologies after 35 wonderful years, including 20 wonderful years in GNU/Linux development & 8 wonderful years as an independent embedded systems developer of digital electronics. Former speech synthesis systems developer of 30 wonderful years, specializing in foreign language phoneme-to-speech synthesis. Also was a beta tester of third-party software-based speech synthesizers. Former FCC-licensed amateur radio operator of 20 wonderful years, beginning with 2m packet-radio & AmSat communications between Anchorage & Manila. Former member of Anchorage Amateur Radio Club and Mike & Key ARC in Seattle. Learned 10-finger QWERTY touch-typing on a manual typewriter in 1980 at a US-based elementary school. Mastered 10-finger QWERTY touch-typing without looking at the keyboard in 1986. Now have osteoarthritis in both of my hands from all that touch-typing! My primary computer programming language is C, which I learned in 1990. My secondary programming language is B.A.S.I.C., which I self-learned in 1982. Prior to my sight-loss, I used to program in LISP/CLISP and Prolog for my early development of artificial intelligence & machine learning programs. Daily, to compensate/facilitate my sight-loss, I am actively using Apple iOS VoiceOver, Google Android TalkBack and Amazon Fire OS VoiceView screen-readers, in addition to my external Bluetooth QWERTY keyboard and sometimes, my Orbit Writer Braille keyboard, as HOBBIES.

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