This paper, as are many in this connection, explores roles for computing in the humanities. The very act of blending a highly technical and often non-academic subject (computing) with an academic one has resulted in the emergence of the field of activity nowadays called the Digital Humanities (DH) or Humanities Computing (HC), and has resulted in bringing together of people with technical skills with those of an academic orientation. Those who have followed the DH over the 60 years of its existence have seen many developments grow out of the generally fruitful collaboration between the academics who have mastered various aspects of computing and the technologists. The nature of this relationship, however, has sometimes been fraught, and vulnerable to “prejudices and misconceptions” that, if set aside, can “challenge the ego but open the mind” (Piez 2005), and a part of what this paper is about is some aspects of the nature of this relationship, from the perspective of the technologist rather than the academic.