[speaker001:] Hi, well, I guess, w-, which one have you got right now? Or,
[speaker002:] Well, I, uh, couple of them, I, at the moment, use an A S T two eighty-six and I got a leading edge and I got a American one and had a I B M one, but [LAUGHTER],
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] My, my, just a couple.
[speaker002:] What do you have [LAUGHTER]?
[speaker001:] Uh, I've got an Omega and I've got a, uh, generic three eighty, or four eighty-six machine.
[speaker002:] Oh, yeah?
[speaker001:] Yeah, it's very, very generic.
[speaker002:] What did you do, put it together?
[speaker001:] Yeah, and, and, uh, upgraded it and put things in there and dibbled and dabbled and
[speaker002:] Well, that's,
[speaker001:] now, now it's, now it's a fast machine [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] That's all I got to say for it.
[speaker002:] Yeah. What do you use it for?
[speaker001:] [Noise] Huh?
[speaker002:] 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:] Uh, anything [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Okay, I mean like business programs or,
[speaker001:] Uh, I've done business programming, scien-, you know, scientific applications like, you know, petroleum science stuff and,
[speaker002:] Man.
[speaker001:] Uh, uh, test equipment and I did the, I, I did one that was, the demonstration of a touch, touch screen for a company that sells, uh, touch screens. It was kind of fun.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh,
[speaker001:] Put a little bitty portable computer in there and a plasma display.
[speaker002:] Huh.
[speaker001:] And make it look like things like, uh, you know, attack simulators and, and
[speaker002:] Well, that's,
[speaker001:] all sorts of little things you'd want to put your finger on the screen for.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] Well, that sounds interesting.
[speaker001:] [Throat clearing].
[speaker002:] 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 where the speed helps out.
[speaker001:] Uh, yeah, unfortunately the little portable P C that was plugged on the back was only a seven and a half megahertz, eighty, eighty-six. It's like slow [dragged out the word].
[speaker002:] Yep, that will, that will,
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] slow you up [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Huh?
[speaker002:] Well, I, I do, uh, uh, programming for C N C turret presses and
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] uh, cat 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 cat cam systems, and tooling, et cetera.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] Uh,
[speaker001:] I know a guy that upgrades, uh, for a reasonable cost.
[speaker002:] Who is that?
[speaker001:] [Breathing] Uh, his name is T Q or something like that. And my notebook is somewhere around here [groan]. See if I can make my telephone cord stretch far enough.
[speaker002:] I've tried to do is get this outfit to
[speaker001:] Uh, he's, uh, up in,
[speaker002:] give me one [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Huh?
[speaker002:] 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:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] And as they,
[speaker001:] Oh, that works.
[speaker002:] And as they go to the next one I just keep the, [LAUGHTER] that's why I have so many different levels of P C -s around at the moment.
[speaker001:] Uh, here it is. A T S Computers.
[speaker002:] A T S?
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] And where are they at?
[speaker001:] Uh, do you know where, uh, Custer is?
[speaker002:] Oh, yeah.
[speaker001:] Okay, he's, uh, uh, south of Renner on, on Custer.
[speaker002:] .
[speaker001:] And there is a little bitty mall that looks kind of like, or, strip kind of center.
[speaker002:] In Richardson there.
[speaker001:] Huh?
[speaker002:] In Richardson?
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] I know where you mean. There is a Mobil and all that kind of s-, 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.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] It's a little place, looks like a castle.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Kind of, uh, little guy in there. He, [throat clearing] 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, s-, he, he, uh, guarantees everything he sells.
[speaker002:] Uh, there is a lot, you ever go by Lucky Computer there?
[speaker001:] Uh-huh, 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.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[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,,
[speaker001:] Uh, they, they're up there in that mall. Uh, just below Campbell.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Or that strip, strip, center.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] They're still doing business. Big business, apparently.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] I tell you, those prices have just, unbelievably come down.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh, oh, yeah, I was amazed I was able to get this four eighty-six for six hundred even with a trade in, you know, it's like, wow [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] That works, I'll go do that [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] I,
[speaker001:] And boy that thing screams now.
[speaker002:] Yeah, I was kind of surprised how rapidly they bypassed,
[speaker001:] [Throat clearing].
[speaker002:] the three eighty-six. That wasn't alive for but maybe two years.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh. Well, I thought was funny that they kept pushing the three eighty-six S X even though the, the price difference is about ten dollars.
[speaker002:] Is that right? That's it?
[speaker001:] Yeah, it, when it comes on the manufacturing floor it's about ten bucks.
[speaker002:] I'll be darned.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] Huh, well,