[speaker002:] well Delphene do you own a P C
[speaker001:] well yes I do I have a T I P C
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] in fact I have two of them I have I have one that I collected the the uh ports for one at a time
[speaker002:] oh really uh-huh
[speaker001:] like first I bought just the uh the central processing unit and the monitor
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] couple years later I bought a printer and then I needed a a hard drive
[speaker002:] yeah oh
[speaker001:] so uh there was this guy at TI selling a a TI PC for four hundred dollars and it had everything had the works
[speaker002:] wow
[speaker001:] and it had the hard drive and everything
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] so I bought that one instead of buying a hard hard drive for mine so now I have that one with the hard drive and mine with no the the the other one with no hard drive
[speaker002:] with a hard drive uh-huh
[speaker001:] and what I thought I'd use them for was just to to do some work out of my house for you know people who needed uh word processing and stuff like that
[speaker002:] oh okay well that sounds interesting
[speaker001:] um-hum the
[speaker002:] my husband and I own a PC and I use mine for like keeping our home finances
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and I also I I play several games on it
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and I also was doing some work for my church doing some word processing on it for my church and that was really interesting being able to do that on the computer they were surprised at how much could be done
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] with a PC
[speaker001:] yeah I thought I might uh get some extra income somehow or another uh
[speaker002:] I imagine if you advertise like in the
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] oh the I guess like The Texan's or if there's another paper up there at at your office
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] you should be able to get some work that way
[speaker001:] yeah I think I'll I'll I thought about doing that one time in fact I saw somebody else advertise in the Dallasite once
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and uh thought about putting an ad in the newspaper also but then I might just get too much business
[speaker002:] yeah you really you have to be a little more selective
[speaker001:] but I right
[speaker002:] you might even want to consider cold calling a couple of places for or checking the newspaper
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] uh there might even be cottage industries now listed in the newspaper because that's what it ends up being a cottage industry
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum well I I found a uh book once in the library that had sources for um work at home
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] uh you know some of them required that you have a PC but most of those wanted IBM compatibles
[speaker002:] yeah is that what yours is
[speaker001:] and as as you know the TI PC is not IBM compatible
[speaker002:] I was thinking that they had recently come out with one that is
[speaker001:] yeah they do the the um the Business Pro
[speaker002:] ah uh-huh
[speaker001:] which is that's what I have at work but uh
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I still have the problem of upgrading mine either to a Business Pro or just going out there and buying a an I B M clone
[speaker002:] yeah um-hum there
[speaker001:] then I'll have three P C's
[speaker002:] well they're real inexpensive to get the clones now
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and I don't know if you watch your sale ads very often
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] but if you do particularly Best Buy
[speaker001:] uh-huh and Circuit City
[speaker002:] and Circuit City I saw a three eighty six hundred and twenty megabyte hard drive with dual floppies and
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] oh gosh the VGA color monitor
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and it also included quite a few other things I mean pieces of software and a mouse for about two thousand or less
[speaker001:] well um-hum
[speaker002:] and that's a really nice package for about that much money
[speaker001:] uh-huh I saw um in fact I believe the one I saw was a three eighty six also it only had one one drive though but it had a hard drive
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] you know some of them have the little uh the the small
[speaker002:] the three and a half floppy
[speaker001:] yeah plus the the bigger one
[speaker002:] those are nicer those I prefer that over the larger floppy
[speaker001:] um-hum I've never used one of those at all
[speaker002:] they take up it you can get more information on the disk
[speaker001:] you're kidding
[speaker002:] no I don't know what it is I guess because it's harder
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] that you can get more information on it than you can on the larger ones and they're a lot easier to transport because it's harder to to damage them
[speaker001:] oh I didn't I didn't know that oh wow
[speaker002:] being in the harder plastic case
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so that's just a something that I've come across
[speaker001:] um-hum well I'm gonna look into getting one of those I B M clones
[speaker002:] well that's mostly um now that's what we have we don't have a real IBM I don't know of too many people who afford IBM
[speaker001:] but right
[speaker002:] but uh we've had not a minute of trouble out of ours not a minute
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and I would I would recommend it to other people