okay
you know it's uh i'm a CPA so i use computer quite a bit uh i'm not sure why they call them sometimes call them personal computers uh
i guess they mean just one that's in your home
yeah right well yeah actual i think they mean one that's that is uh
designed or designated dedicated for one person to use primarily as opposed to uh large mainframe computer
uh-huh
which you know several people maybe use uh terminals tied to it
i guess that's that's my definition anyway
okay i guess that's like the ones in TI
right um i have an IBM it's uh one they call the XT
which is one of the earlier models
Prior to that i had uh one that was a Heath Kit computer which is one that i
basically built myself
oh in your home
uh yeah and uh so i've had uh i've had a computer for uh oh about ten years little over ten years i guess now
oh
uh-huh
how do you know about building you own computer
well you uh Heath Kit which is uh you know one of these uh electronic stores it's a hobby store place
uh-huh
and you can go there and buy a kit or at least you use to be able to i'm not sure that you can still buy those from them now
but you could buy a kit and build a computer it like have a would have a manual step-by-step manual
to go through and put all the parts together
was that a little less expensive
uh yeah it uh it then it was and of course the computer are so cheap now i'm not even sure how it would how it would compare uh
oh
back then the computer that i built was uh one you know was a old pretty low level technology wise
and uh it cost me oh fifteen hundred dollars i guess to build it
huh
and it would have cost eighteen hundred or so to buy i think so it was you know it was not a great saving but it was a learning experience any way
oh seems like it would be more fun any way my husband gets a kick out of building stuff for his self rather than buying it
yeah
yeah if uh if he's if he's aware of building you know building electronic stuff he's he knows about Heath Kit probably
no he's not into electronics i'm just saying per se he just likes to build stuff but uh
not into electronic
right
but uh you know i had to had to learn a little bit about uh using a solder iron and and that kind of stuff
well i i say uh i said basically i built it myself when i got to a certain point i took it to a TI engineer that uh was a friend of my wife's and
uh-huh
he uh you know he worked with help me finished putting it together you know and make it work right it uh
so you know if you don't know much electronics you can you know you have to have somebody with a little electronic background to make it work but uh you know the basic stuff i i did all the basics any way
somebody to help
do you use your computer for home uh
no well i use mine at work i don't i don't even have one at the house any more it's uh i've got it in my office and uh matter fact i'm market for another one
uh-huh
is that for your house or for your office oh okay
no for my home you know so i mean for my for my office
so i'm i'm not sure eventually i'll have to i'll probably have one at home too but uh
well couldn't you like um i'm pretty sure you can do this have it
one in your home that has the same stuff in it as your office does or have it kind of connect it
oh yeah oh
well you can have them connected by a by a modem if you want to which is a telephone line
uh-huh
but but you can can have the same software you know the same programs
just contains a
so that you take your data files from one to the other so that you can use same computer you know for the for the
okay
right
a a different computers for the same project
right
okay
so you know it's and that's that's one thing that i would like to have uh occasionally i need to work at home you know and now i don't have a computer there so
you could just bring your disk home and do it
you know that's i could if i you know if i if i had a computer there so
yeah
that was my problem in school i could not write programs
um-hum
i loved messing with the computer though but i just could not
yeah
to a certain point i'd just get messed up and i would be totally lost
yeah so
but uh
you know it's uh you know the computer it's uh the you know growing thing in uh you know both home and business i i think eventually
yeah i want i'm wanting to go back to school and this time i'll try a lot harder
yeah that's but eventually i think uh most homes will have a computer you know for some reason uh either
uh-huh
well a lot of them more or less close the computers the uh
microwaves all have these new little buttons and
right yeah
just about every thing is getting computerized
yeah new cars have computer in them and
yeah have you seen that uh
thing that shows the maps
uh no i haven't seen that but i have heard about it but i haven't seen it
i think that's neat
yeah but uh
i don't know i guess the uh the personal computer is it's really uh going to be a necessity that you know children should learn to use it i was just commenting i teach uh a couple accounting classes
and uh i was just commenting the other night that it's uh
going to reach the point where um accounting classing in college have to have computer for the students to use you know in every class uh right now i teach over at Brookhaven College
and there's only one class that i happen to teach that that teaches the accounting students anything about using the computer
if they want to use want to learn the computer they have to take classes outside of the accounting area
uh-huh
okay now a friend of mine is trying is going for CPA and she is having to take
uh-huh
or she maybe maybe it's just a preference that she's taking it on herself but she is taking a computer class
yeah and uh but yeah it's that's something that's going to be uh a necessity for accountants because you you know it's you can do so much for more work with a computer then you can do you know doing it manually
yeah
and uh and a lot more accurately also
i use the computer to do you know all of my accounting work and of course i write letters on the computer and i do income tax on the computer so it's i use it a lot
i do our income taxes too and you're right it probably would be a lot easier if i the use a computer
yeah you know it's just it would be
if you have a computer you can buy you know some little cheap software that uh that uh you can buy like at Software House here in Richard in uh Dallas at uh over in Addison
uh-huh
you can go over there and buy an income tax package that will run on a personal computer
and do your income tax and it's one of those where you can change things y ou know to see what happens you know you say well let's see i've got some many uh so much of my charitable contributions on my itemized deductions
and then you discover that you had more then you thought you did you can go in and change it
uh-huh
and it changes everything on the return and you don't have to go back and you know change every line with you know the eraser or the
and redo everything
the uh liquid paper or whatever
right
huh
so it's it's really convenient to have that plus you know you've got it on the computer and it does all the calculations and the math and
you know makes for a lot of your errors on the return
yeah well so far i've had been able to use the easy form
yeah so
uh-huh
just me and my husband
right but uh
so now i'm wanting for
my little boy's birthday is coming up and i was thinking about getting him just one of those little
i know i they've got toy computers more or less just for kids who just starting and he'll be four
uh-huh
yeah
but i've seen it on uh like twenty twenty and stuff whatever where they do have little
third graders and stuff working on
yeah they uh start are starting real early on the computers when he gets to school he will probably be using a computer
uh-huh
you know yeah second or third grade probably and uh
uh-huh
he'll he'll know more about computer then you will and you'll be having to go back to school just too keep up with him
probably but i think that's the way it goes with most parents
yeah that seems to have to learn have to learn a little bit as they go along you you suddenly discover that your educated when the students are
uh-huh
a lot
well
go ahead
well it's been a it's been interesting taking uh about computers it's uh that's one of my favorite subjects and uh i really i get into talking about them so
don't know much about them
yeah so
the main thing
i didn't i don't even remember them having computers on uh that little sheet
um yeah yeah i don't remember i i've checked off a bunch of stuff you know on there i don't remember what all was on there but i've talked about two or three things that i wasn't you know wasn't expecting to talk about so
but uh
uh-huh well it's been pretty interesting so far
yeah yeah so it's been been nice talking to you and uh i guess uh maybe they'll ring us up again sometime
yes
all righty all right bye-bye
okay thanks bye-bye
