all right well i guess well which one have you got right now or 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 my my just a couple what do you have um i've got an Omega and i've got a uh generic 380 or 486 machine yeah it's very very generic oh yeah what did you do put it together 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 well that's yeah yeah what do you use it for what do you use it for uh work uh i'm a contract programmer oh yeah what kind of programs do you um anything yeah okay i i mean like business programs or uh i've done business programming scientific you know scientific applications like you know petroleum science stuff and uh oh yeah uh-huh 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 uh-huh huh and make it look like things like uh you know attack simulators and don holds well that's all sorts of little things you'd think you'd want to put your finger on the screen for well that sounds interesting matter of fact uh i guess you do uh you get a lot of graphics in there i imagine huh oh yeah definitely that's that's where the speed helps out 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 yep that'll that'll slow you up well i i do uh uh programming for CNC turret presses and hm um-hum 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 um-hum well i know a guy that upgrades uh for reasonable cost uh who is that 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 what i've tried to do is get this outfit to uh but he's uh up in hm 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 um-hum oh that works 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 uh here it is ATS Computers ATS um-hum and where are they at uh do you know where uh Custer is okay he's oh yeah um uh south of Renner on on Custer okay and there's a little bitty mall that looks kind of like or strip kind of center in Richardson in Richardson there hm in Richardson um-hum 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 right it's it's it's just south of there it's a little place looks like a castle kind of yeah yeah you know little guy in there he he uh gives reasonable prices oh like i i traded my uh three eighty six for the four eighty six for about six hundred really well that's a good deal yeah it was pretty reasonable yeah but uh uh he and he does a good job and he says he he uh guarantees everything he has sells uh there's a lot you ever go over by Lucky Computer there um-hum yeah 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 um-hum 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 uh they they're up there in that mall uh just below Campbell or that strip strip center yeah yeah yeah they're still doing business big business apparently yeah they i tell you those prices have just unbelievably come down 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 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 um-hum well i thought was funny that they kept pushing the 386 SX even though the the price difference is about ten dollars is that right that's it yeah it and when it comes on the manufacturing floor it's about ten bucks i'll be darned yeah huh well