[speaker001:] all right well I guess well which one have you got right now or
[speaker002:] well I got a couple of them I at the moment use an AST 286 and I got a leading edge and I got a American one and had a IBM one but
[speaker001:] my my just a couple
[speaker002:] what do you have
[speaker001:] um I've got an Omega and I've got a uh generic 380 or 486 machine yeah it's very very generic
[speaker002:] oh yeah what did you do put it together
[speaker001:] yeah and and uh upgraded it and put things in there and dibbled and dabbled and now now it's now it's a fast machine that's all I got to say for it hm
[speaker002:] well that's yeah yeah what do you use it for what do you use it for
[speaker001:] uh work uh I'm a contract programmer
[speaker002:] oh yeah what kind of programs do you
[speaker001:] um anything
[speaker002:] yeah okay I I mean like business programs or
[speaker001:] uh I've done business programming scientific you know scientific applications like you know petroleum science stuff and uh
[speaker002:] oh yeah uh-huh
[speaker001:] uh test equipment and I did the I I did one that was a demonstration of a touch touch screen for a company that sells uh touch screens it was kind of fun put a little bitty portable computer in there and a plasma display and
[speaker002:] uh-huh huh
[speaker001:] and make it look like things like uh you know attack simulators and don holds
[speaker002:] well that's
[speaker001:] all sorts of little things you'd think you'd want to put your finger on the screen for
[speaker002:] well that sounds interesting matter of fact uh I guess you do uh you get a lot of graphics in there I imagine huh
[speaker001:] oh yeah definitely
[speaker002:] that's that's where the speed helps out
[speaker001:] uh yeah unfortunately the little portable PC that was plugged on the back was only a seven and a half megahertz eighty eighty six it's like slow
[speaker002:] yep that'll that'll slow you up well I I do uh uh programming for CNC turret presses and
[speaker001:] hm um-hum
[speaker002:] uh cad cam system type things and uh really need a faster system uh I got a new line that I I sell metal fabricating equipment and cad cam systems and tooling et cetera and
[speaker001:] um-hum well I know a guy that upgrades uh for reasonable cost
[speaker002:] uh who is that
[speaker001:] uh his name is TQ or something like that and my notebook is somewhere around here see if I can make my telephone cord stretch far enough
[speaker002:] what I've tried to do is get this outfit to
[speaker001:] uh but he's uh up in hm
[speaker002:] give me one that's how I got my other ones by selling their product for them they not only give me a demonstrator but the hardware as well as the software
[speaker001:] um-hum oh that works
[speaker002:] and as they and as they go to the next one I just keep the that's why I have so many different levels of PCs around at the moment
[speaker001:] uh here it is ATS Computers
[speaker002:] ATS
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and where are they at
[speaker001:] uh do you know where uh Custer is okay he's
[speaker002:] oh yeah
[speaker001:] um uh south of Renner on on Custer
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] and there's a little bitty mall that looks kind of like or strip kind of center
[speaker002:] in Richardson in Richardson there
[speaker001:] hm
[speaker002:] in Richardson
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] I know where you mean there's a Mobil and all that kind of stuff uh on that one corner that's about Lookout there I think isn't it
[speaker001:] right it's it's it's just south of there it's a little place looks like a castle kind of
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] you know little guy in there he he uh gives reasonable prices
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] like I I traded my uh three eighty six for the four eighty six for about six hundred
[speaker002:] really well that's a good deal
[speaker001:] yeah it was pretty reasonable
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but uh uh he and he does a good job and he says he he uh guarantees everything he has sells
[speaker002:] uh there's a lot you ever go over by Lucky Computer there
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah
[speaker002:] I used to when I was putting shop floor computers together for guys I'd go and get their units and put them together and go and interface the stuff with our systems and
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] haven't been doing much of that for the last year or so so I I don't know where those guys are at these days but I would assume
[speaker001:] uh they they're up there in that mall uh just below Campbell or that strip strip center
[speaker002:] yeah yeah yeah
[speaker001:] they're still doing business big business apparently
[speaker002:] yeah they I tell you those prices have just unbelievably come down
[speaker001:] um-hum well yeah I was amazed that I was able to get this four eighty six for six hundred even with a trade in you know it's like wow that works I'll go do that and boy that thing screams now
[speaker002:] yeah  yeah I yeah I was kind of surprised how rapidly they bypassed the three eighty six that wasn't alive for but maybe two years
[speaker001:] um-hum well I thought was funny that they kept pushing the 386 SX even though the the price difference is about ten dollars
[speaker002:] is that right that's it
[speaker001:] yeah it and when it comes on the manufacturing floor it's about ten bucks
[speaker002:] I'll be darned
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] huh well