Let me warn you about how I am going to talk today. I have not conducted a survey of available computer programs for factor ana-lytic computations, nor have I done an analysis of the problems of the application of computers to factor analysis in any way that could be considered scientific. I am saying that I shall ask you to listen to my opinions about the applications of computers to factor analysis and only hope that these opinions and anecdotes make some sense. My qualification for presuming to ask you to listen to these ruminations is purely quantitative: I imagine that I am guilty of having carried out more factor analytic calculations of the theoretical sort on electronic computers than anyone walking the earth.