[speaker001:] now we're ready do you have a personal computer
[speaker002:] we have one
[speaker001:] you do in your home
[speaker002:] yes yes ma'am
[speaker001:] I do not have one in my home I use one all day at work but I don't have one at home
[speaker002:] what
[speaker001:] do you find you use it a lot
[speaker002:] do you wish you I don't use it as much as my children and my husband do my actually my husband and I are taking a class at our local junior college
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] called Microcomputers Microcomputers 101 and we're just touching on database spreadsheets and word processing and just kind of you know different kinds of storage and we're just kind of touching on a basic computers
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum what kind do you have
[speaker002:] we have an IBM compatible it's Gateway brand
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] that we bought mainly for our children to have educational programs
[speaker001:] um-hum well that sounds interesting
[speaker002:] yeah what kind of a computer do you use at work
[speaker001:] I I have a a PS 1 IBM type
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] uh and I use it all day at work and I put all my personal stuff on it at work
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] so I really don't haven't had a need for one at home but probably if I didn't have access to one all the time at work I'd want one at home
[speaker002:] right I worked on my airline Apollo Focal Point computer for about four years
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] it which was different
[speaker001:] yeah what is that tracing tracking the flights and things
[speaker002:] but I missed right right how long are we supposed to talk on this
[speaker001:] uh-huh they tell us when we're through
[speaker002:] oh okay okay this is
[speaker001:] they come in and tell us have you just started doing this
[speaker002:] this is my very first time yes
[speaker001:] oh really they'll come in and tell us that the switchboard is full now and it's time for you to wind up in the next thirty seconds or something like that
[speaker002:] oh okay
[speaker001:] it's not more than five minutes but I'm going to ignore that that's a call on my other line so I'm just gonna ignore it but
[speaker002:] uh oh oh okay oh okay that I have that too
[speaker001:] it's kind of a hassle when you have this but other times
[speaker002:] I
[speaker001:] it
[speaker002:] where where do you work
[speaker001:] I work at Texas Instruments
[speaker002:] oh you do oh well of course of course that's why you why you're making these calls right
[speaker001:] yes I sure do well no I'm doing this at home I'm already home for the day
[speaker002:] oh I see well this is a pretty good deal
[speaker001:] I do it uh you know I can't do it at work I I'm I work in the legal department so I'm pretty busy
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] but I use my PC there mostly for creating legal documents we use WordPerfect Lotus
[speaker002:] uh-huh oh you do know Lotus huh oh that's great that's something we want to learn
[speaker001:] um yeah it's really I love Lotus I think that's about my favorite
[speaker002:] oh I've heard that people that finally learn how to use it really like it
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] that's great
[speaker001:] it really is and I know there's still a hundred things I don't know how to do on it
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] but uh you know you learn something every time you use it
[speaker002:] I have a question on this this thing that I'm this survey or whatever you know this I volunteered for
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] do I start calling in myself or do I wait for people to call me
[speaker001:] you can did they give you a number to call
[speaker002:] right an eight hundred number
[speaker001:] you can start calling in whenever it's convenient for you but you can only make one call a day
[speaker002:] oh only one a day
[speaker001:] yeah if you've talked to someone like you're talking to me now and I place the call this counts as your call
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] so you cannot make a call now until tomorrow
[speaker002:] oh oh I see okay so then do you get the five bucks or do I
[speaker001:] no we both do
[speaker002:] oh we both do well that's a heck of a deal
[speaker001:] didn't they ask you for your ID number when you answered okay so you both do from what I understand
[speaker002:] right I had to put that in well that's a pretty good deal so why why are we doing this
[speaker001:] it's for research
[speaker002:] actually I'm doing this for somebody else but you know for a fund-raiser
[speaker001:] it's a research type project on uh voice activated electronics you know to uh it's uh well they call it the speech lab that is setting this thing up
[speaker002:] uh-huh oh it's almost like that like a voice command computer type thing oh
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum they're doing research for a lot of big companies from what I understand on this now I don't know
[speaker002:] well that's wonderful
[speaker001:] I don't know everything about it but they uh try to get as many people as they possibly can to contribute to this and that way they can check voice patterns
[speaker002:] I see different kinds of voices and
[speaker001:] um-hum and get the computer where it recognizes voices
[speaker002:] things wonderful see that's why I it's interesting because you have I I'm going to say you have an accent
[speaker001:] well I probably do since I've
[speaker002:] and I and I think that I don't I mean to you but you know
[speaker001:] well I've been born I was born and raised in Texas have lived here forever so I probably do
[speaker002:] and you're in what city
[speaker001:] I'm in Richardson it's right outside of Dallas
[speaker002:] okay my sister one of my sisters lives in Plano
[speaker001:] uh-huh well Richardson's right between Dallas and Plano
[speaker002:] is that right outside of how about that I probably went through Richardson then
[speaker001:] you probably did
[speaker002:] and then I have a sister that lives in Austin
[speaker001:] um-hum well what are you doing way in Washington
[speaker002:] but there both well we're actually all from Nebraska they just are recently moved there my brother-in-law is director of admissions at the University of Texas in Dallas
[speaker001:] um-hum well that's interesting
[speaker002:] yeah and then my sister works at the air force base
[speaker001:] uh-huh so I imagine they use personal computers
[speaker002:] actually yes they both have personal computers
[speaker001:] do they do their correspondence on it
[speaker002:] uh I think they just send Christmas letters on it as far as I mostly my one sister uses hers for
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] her children you know children's games
[speaker001:] um-hum