[speaker001:] uh let's see personal computers
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] so do you use them
[speaker002:] uh yes um we own one
[speaker001:] terrific what kind
[speaker002:] uh its an Emerson eighty eighty six um two low density floppy drives and no hard drive yet but uh you know it's it comes in mighty handy
[speaker001:] mostly for word processing type things
[speaker002:] uh yeah a big chunk of it's word processing we're also taking programming classes and uh so there's a fair amount of programming getting done on it but uh the uh right now we got a project going we're trying to put um all my wife's stray recipes on the disk
[speaker001:] nice did you buy a program to handle menus
[speaker002:] uh it came with a menus program but uh that doesn't it is maceboast excuse me mostly kind of a pain in the neck without a hard drive
[speaker001:] oh yes
[speaker002:] and hopefully sometime this spring we'll be able to get one and get it configured
[speaker001:] there's eighty eighty eight is what you said
[speaker002:] eighty eighty six
[speaker001:] eighty oh gosh it's worth your time to just upgrade they're so darned cheap now
[speaker002:] which
[speaker001:] computers
[speaker002:] ah impoverished college student
[speaker001:] oh no
[speaker002:] this one went on a credit card and we got a way out while to pay it off yet so it's
[speaker001:] ah I've I've got one at home too it's a three eighty six thirty three megahertz forty four meg RAM RAM and hundred and thirty meg drive and
[speaker002:] uh oh that sounds nice
[speaker001:] super VGA and yeah it's fun I do programming too my job is uh EDP auditor and so I'm into computers all the time
[speaker002:] EDP
[speaker001:] electronic data processing
[speaker002:] okay that sounds like a fine job
[speaker001:] yeah I really enjoy it and it treats me well
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] uh what are you studying in college computers
[speaker002:] ah computer engineering
[speaker001:] how nice
[speaker002:] well it's computer engineering technology uh which uh it's all I can understand is just this slightly more hands on version of computer engineering but I've got a ways to go yet so far most of what I've done is getting gotten core classes out of the way taken some electronics classes and one class in um with computer logic
[speaker001:] how they work is fascinating to me
[speaker002:] oh yes yeah I rather enjoy it myself the uh lab for that uh um computer logic class was a lot of fun
[speaker001:] was it did you
[speaker002:] yeah we got to hook up a few uh counters and and uh decoders encoders
[speaker001:] hardware stuff huh
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] what do you think of that fuzzy logic
[speaker002:] I've not gotten a chance to work with it although um my uh my data structures teacher was telling us something about why how fudgy fuzzy logic works as far as the concept behind it
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] now how you'd implement that uh software wise or mechanically I don't know but uh it sounds like a very impressive piece of piece of work
[speaker001:] yeah they're pretty amazing uh I've written a couple of programs for commercially uh
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] and it's a fun field
[speaker002:] in the fuzzy logic direction
[speaker001:] what no in uh no just regular uh but you have to take into account you know with any computer program all the type of things people can do to you uh to make your program crash or things you normally don't consider
[speaker002:] yeah entering bad information of one sort or another and
[speaker001:] yeah pushing certain keys certain times and
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] messing up your files and things like that
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and your gonna be an engineer a computer engineer type
[speaker002:] uh yeah well the what the computer well the CET program seems to be so far is just a broad based specialized from you get programming a fair fair amount of programming you get uh hardware you get uh more or less uh you get basic electronics courses that uh deal with you know not only the digital circuitry but uh you know power supplies and and uh just the whole gamut but mostly towards uh computer electronics so the idea is that um you can go in a variety of directions from CET major but I say I have more fun with the hardware than I do with the software so you know I pretty much plan on I mean so far I'm planning to go in the engineering direction
[speaker001:] I don't that's good uh