[speaker001:] okay uh personal computer I don't have a personal computer I'd like to have one if I had more money I'd have one
[speaker002:] uh-huh I've got one I do have one but it's a kind of an old one that uh they didn't use at work any longer it's not the not the greatest one but uh I use one at work quite a bit all day long in fact
[speaker001:] um-hum is it is it hard to find uh compatible pieces for your the one you have at home
[speaker002:] yeah because it's a little bit older and uh it's a it's a Wang machine and Wang was you know a leader a while ago but now they're kind of out of it
[speaker001:] yeah oh yeah um I would think that would be the hardest part about having a home computer is the it seems like every month they're coming out with something new and so then you're not compatible oh yeah
[speaker002:] what's that oh yeah constantly constantly changing
[speaker001:] uh even with like the computer games Nintendo and that kind of stuff I mean they change it every year and the the previous game or the previous program or whatever isn't compatible
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah most of the uh you know WordPerfect and Lotus and those kinds of programs you can subscribe to an update service for about fifty dollars a year I think they'll give you the the next release of their software
[speaker001:] oh oh okay
[speaker002:] and but uh
[speaker001:] well that isn't that doesn't sound too bad
[speaker002:] yeah do you use one much
[speaker001:] um not really not in my work um I did try and take a class um I think last was it last spring
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] no actually it was last fall it was at at I took desktop publishing I just wanted to get sort of a a slight feel for it and it was just an introduction course
[speaker002:] oh uh-huh sure uh-huh
[speaker001:] and it was pretty fascinating we we learned how to do how to make a brochure type thing out out off off the computer so it was pretty interesting
[speaker002:] oh uh-huh yeah oh I'm a CPA and I use it almost all the time for this Lotus program I'll have well lot of good applications for what I have to do
[speaker001:] oh so you've yeah uh-huh yeah now the Lotus is for mostly numbers and graphs and things like that right yeah
[speaker002:] yeah or uh spreadsheets and that type of thing yeah it's
[speaker001:] I'm not real good with computers at all and that's mainly because I don't use them I wish I did I'd be you know
[speaker002:] huh yeah
[speaker001:] more up on it
[speaker002:] well they they've sure come down in price uh in your you know four or five years ago they were probably four or five times what they are now
[speaker001:] oh my goodness yes yeah have you heard about the phone that uh believe it's AT and T uh is it AT and T that's coming out with the phone with the like on the Jetsons when you could see the you could see the person's face
[speaker002:] oh yeah uh-huh when you have a vision with the sound uh-huh
[speaker001:] have you seen that yeah yeah yeah I saw that in a in a magazine recently I was really shocked yeah
[speaker002:] I'm not sure I'd like that once you get those calls early in the morning when you're just out of bed
[speaker001:] oh I know hopefully you can
[speaker002:] decide if you wanna have a picture or not yeah
[speaker001:] have control over whether they can see you or not but it looked pretty nice and it's only gonna be two thousand dollars so which is not bad for something new like that so
[speaker002:] oh really yeah uh-huh well you know they've got these uh all these modems uh computers have modems in them now where you can call all over the face uh
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah
[speaker002:] I can do a fair amount of work from home and tap into our company's main computer system without much trouble
[speaker001:] oh my mother does a lot of work on computers and she taps into computers all over the world she works at at she works at TI and uh
[speaker002:] uh-huh this is uh how you got signed up for it uh-huh
[speaker001:] yeah uh-huh and uh you know she talks to people through the computer from everywhere so I think I think that's really neat too
[speaker002:] yeah yeah well I have a sister lives in Plano that's my connection with the project
[speaker001:] okay uh-huh maybe she knows my mother because my mother used to work in Plano now she works in uh north Dallas I think so
[speaker002:] oh uh-huh yeah
[speaker001:] but
[speaker002:] but I you know there are I've got a six year old and I think he's he's got quite a bit of interest in uh in playing around with the one we have at home and it's not a it's not a real fun one it's not a color or I don't have much in the way of game software
[speaker001:] uh-huh I visited with some kids in elementary school and nowadays a lot of the schools have computers and the kids are really they're more interested in their schoolwork
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] with the computer you know they can also play games but then they can help them write papers and helps with their math and that kind of thing
[speaker002:] yeah I think it yeah you know adds a dimension that uh probably makes learning a little bit more fun if you get to you know
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] try things a little different than just the standard pencil and paper and crayons
[speaker001:] and there's always something new even if you know even if you think you know everything about the computer there's always one button that you never quite use and you don't really know what it's for and you know it can be fascinating in that way too especially for a kid that you know is just learning so
[speaker002:] yeah um-hum  yeah
[speaker001:] well hopefully I'll be able to get a computer at some point I don't know when but I don't need one right now
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but there's gonna come a time I'm sure when everybody's gonna have to have one
[speaker002:] oh I think that day'll happen I'm hoping and perhaps uh what'll ultimately happen is you won't have to commute as much but you'll be able to do so much from home
[speaker001:] oh yeah um-hum yeah
[speaker002:] that uh you know you won't have to be driving around like