A puzzle for aficionados

A selection of screen shots from a computer package with which I have a family connection. The test, for which the reward is fame rather than fortune, is to work out what that connection might be. Persons not resident in the UK are not eligible.

These particular shots caught my eye because they mention Laguna Beach, a place which I once had the opportunity to visit, in the margins of some very important meeting. See gmaps 33.545987, -117.793684. An odd place, with houses built out on wooden piles over the beach, complete with a chap going around with a special contraption, a bit like a metal detector, but for detecting whether giant ants were eating the piles. Also the place where I bought my first copy of 'Into Thin Air', a tale of strange & tragic goings-on on the top of Mount Everest. A book which, as it happened, introduced me to the rather different style of book production prevalent in the US. One very visible difference being the way the pages were cut, with the US liking ragged-cut rather than straight-cut. No idea how it is done. Another was the inclusion of a number of small wood-cuts, more or less dropped from books over here for a very long time.