Watkins served in the US Army for sixteen years, in which he obtained his introduction to personal computers, he stated in a 2016 interview with the information web site Splinter. Brennan states he bought along well with Riedel and Ronald Watkins, but he was in no way notably fond of Jim Watkins. Brennan was unimpressed with the elder Watkins’ computing abilities and felt that a lot of of his solutions have been "’90s specialized information.