hi how are you today
i'm great
good well as a matter of fact i'm before we started this conversation i was working on my PC at home
yeah
uh do you have one
no i don't have one at home i work with one on at work continually you know but i do not have one of my own at home
yeah
do you have
what do you have at home
we have an um actually it's a TI computer but it is the IBM
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um clone it's not the TI PC from back when
right
from the the oldies but the goodies it's probably pretty close to what i have because i have the same kind of thing at work i have a three eighty six S X which is TI computer but everything in is in IBM mode so
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right
right
yeah that's what we have um
do you use it a lot at home what do you
well i really do i um am an accountant and but i work at home
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so i use it for that quite often um
so you're on it a lot
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we have you know used some of it for some personal things we keep track of personal budgets and things like that on it um
i since it's tax season i'm doing a lot of taxes so i do a lot of um a lot of that work on it as well
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i was amazed when i took our taxes to our tax person and she works out of her home also and the uh software that does the taxes is just incredible you know i mean she just
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oh it is
you know i expected to go and you know drop the stuff off and go back two weeks later and you know she had it done and out in twenty minutes on her little PC it was great
yeah you can that's right
that's wonderful i have often thought that that having one at home would be neat i just don't know if we would really use it that much you know
i
we really we decide we didn't decide to get one until i started working at home
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then you know then we thought well we can use it for you know some personal things but it for us it really took you know a business application to justify the expense of it
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oh definitely definitely i know my stepfather bought my mother a little personal computer oh i guess probably three years ago for Christmas and
so
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and you know it's got some stuff on it it's got a nice little word processing software on it you know and some budgeting type things and stuff and i don't think she's ever touched it
really
you know it just it just seems like a lot of trouble for something at home you know she always seems to have better things to do than to try to sit down and figure out how to use her computer you know so
right she could just as easily do those things by hand
yeah just as quickly
yeah
now i know my boss has bought the software um that he can that his his checkbook is on on on a disk and he goes in and prints and types his checks on the screen and then hits print and they print out on the checks and
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and he's ordered envelopes with the windows in the right places you know
oh my gosh
and he just whips out you know i saw him yesterday morning over there and
and he paid his monthly bills and he just you know wrote all the checks on the screen and hit print and it printed out like ten checks and he just you know they're perforated and he just ripped them off they go through just a continuous thing on the printer and
huh
right
he ripped them off and stuck them in the envelopes and there they went you know and he said you know i can balance my checkbook in seconds you know because it's all in the computer you know so
right
and you know there's not going to be those adding mistakes that we all make
that's exactly right he said you know he said used to be i always sat looking for those you know he said this way there isn't any you know it does it for you so
right
that's true
this you know there are some definitely some some advantages to it it's just a matter of like you say are the advantages does it justify the cost if you're using it strictly for personal business so
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i i think in most cases i'd have to say no not unless somebody really enjoys it or
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perhaps is using it for education i have a four year old son and we have some education programs that he likes a little Sesame Street one and um we have another one that plays music and he really likes that one
yeah yeah
as he grows up he'll be even more and more too
that's right
that'll be great
yeah and now i think about it i guess for for kids like as they get older especially now
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uh when they get to junior high school high school and even college i mean my sister went to college um started about three years ago and she had to have a a computer
really
i mean it was like a necessity she couldn't imagine going through college without a computer
well yeah i
i'm going through right now i'm you know going part time in the evenings and you know i do yeah everything has to be typed i mean they require it you have to type it you know and
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right
and so i'm up here you know nights and weekends you know working on the little PC on the PC up here you know typing stuff so i can see where it would be a great advantage to have one at home you know if you were going to school
sure
yeah any more i don't even know if they have if a college kid would have a typewriter
well you i don't know no i can't no and they probably used to have it i just finished a a major research paper a couple of weeks ago and i couldn't imagine not having that thing on a disk where i could go back in and move stuff around and change it i
probably not even no
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i don't know what they used to do before they
well unfortunately in our family my husband and i went through college together and then he went on and got his Master's degree while i was working
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and i'm the better typist of us and we just had a regular old typewriter not even a correcting one back then it wasn't that long ago but
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oh and you had to type all of his papers
i typed his Master's papers and things on a typewriter oh boy to have a computer back then
oh gosh
oh cut your time in half at least
at least i mean and then of course you have some changes to make and do the whole thing over you take out a sentence
at least
yeah
on a computer you take it out bleep print it out fine take out a sentence on a piece of paper
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you do the whole thing over
that's right
that's right you know i remember when i was working in high school you know i was working in an office and right right after i got out of high school i continued working there for probably another year and we did everything on a typewriter
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and we did everything on a typewriter you know everything but it's amazing you know then when where you know someone would have you type a letter
oh yeah
they did it right they did it right i mean they were yeah they sit there and they go is this really what i want to say and you typed it and that was it and now you know people just send it back over and over and over and over
the first time yeah
that's probably one of the problems and frustrations that it's brought about because people do feel like oh well we can just change it if you need to
well we'll try this out and see what it looks like yeah so
right
use it as a just a
yeah instead of knowing what they want to say before they ever they just you know play with it and which in a way is nice to be able to do but you know it it gets a little out of hand sometimes i've seen it get out of hand up here you know where
right
i know
oh yeah
you know we've got a secretary that sits over here that's keeping metrics right now and keeping up you know of all the letters i type how many changes how many of them do i make changes on
and on each letter what types of changes are they typos are they because i couldn't read it or people just change a like one word because they think it sounds better or whatever
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and you know she's also keeping a percentage you know what percentage of letters am i retyping for whatever reason and there's like one week she she did retypes on ninety percent of what she typed
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i believe it
you know and it's like you know it's ridiculous and that was that was the high week but it's running about seventy which is still ridiculous to have to make changes to seventy percent of everything that she types you know that's
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well it's good that she does that i mean bring it to people's attention
well that's exactly right you know she keeps you know keeps several weeks' worth of data and then in addition is keeping copies of all the changes to show you know look this didn't really need to be changed you know this is this is ridiculous and you know changing add this time to now
you know i mean that's the kind of things you know people that she's keeping and showing that this was a big waste of time it was a waste of paper it was a waste you know to change something like that so
right
anyway maybe you know maybe it'll it'll help in some way but i don't know there there there definitely even with the few disadvantages like that are far better than the alternative
oh i have to
you know without a doubt without a doubt
well i would like to get one at home some day we've got a two year old son and so you know some day i would like to get even just like the video tell or something like that you know just to to be able to pull in sources sources from outside would be wonderful you know so
right
especially when they're in school i think they would get a lot out of it
oh i do too i do too the on line um encyclopedia just sounds wonderful you know that that sounds like such a great idea you know it'd be kind of fun to be be able to play with it
uh-huh oh yeah
so i know my father had a PC and and when we were in high school it was always fun we could um link in and i don't even remember now what it was called but you could link in and talk to other people talk to people all over the country you know
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and like you have your own little code name you know and you'd type in hi how are you and they'd type back and everybody and you'd have five or six or seven people talking to each other at the same time and everything everybody said
right
prints out on your screen as they're typing it and it was just great fun you know
right
it was very expensive because the whole time you were on there you were on long distance you know it was like a long distance phone call so we were each limited limited to like twenty minutes a day you know so
ooh
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ooh that still could add up
it's oh it added up big well you know we my parents were divorced and so the time we were like visiting our father in the summer time you know so he felt like he could splurge and let us do it you know i'm sure we would not have been allowed to do that under normal situations you know
yeah
but when you're doing the guilty father complex you know because he's not there to watch us grow you can kind of get all kinds of stuff you know
yeah
oh
that's sad well it was nice to talk to you
well
yeah you too
have a nice you too
have a nice day
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