oh do you have a do you have a personal computer
yes i do i've had one
ever since uh like oh nineteen seventy four i
had several since then uh i built my first one from a kit
oh A two or one of those L two
uh it was an a S 100 bus uh model
oh okay
uh yeah i don't know if you remember the old uh MIPS computers
yes
uh well
is out of San Antonio originally wasn't it
uh San were they out of San Antonio i thought they were i thought they were out of uh
uh New Mexico
i really
it it
anyway
i may be confused on that but i remember seeing the ads in Popular Science
uh i bought my first one in nineteen eighty
yeah
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uh
what kind do you have now
uh now i have uh just a regular PC clone
oh
it's the 8088 uh
it's an old one i've had it for oh i guess five years now
well uh
kind do you what kind do you have
well actually i'm between PC's right now i put my i i had an old one and i kind of got put it up on the shelf
and i bought one for uh for the family use and i've given that one to my son it's a two eighty six
a two eighty six clone uh an AT clone
and i've given that to him and he has it up in his room which means i can still use it but uh
that's right um-hum
it's not readily available so i usually end up bringing home a
we have a little portable in the office and when i need to do something i usually bring that one home
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a laptop yes
they uh
they're real convenient but sometimes they're kind of heavy to carry around because you get
you know you get kind of tired if you have to walk a whole lot and i guess it's uh it's all what we get used to it's certainly better than to have a whole machine to take apart
my first machine was um
a Tandy model one or an old Radio Shack model one and
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that was like moving to take that apart
yes sir it's still lighter
bust box
yes
uh
yeah uh i i sold model one uh model threes i guess for a while in my store
oh did you
yes
i had a personal computer computer store for a while
oh you did
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well that
at the time that was a good business i think now it's pretty cut throat isn't it
it's extremely cut throat now yeah i was uh you know it was sort of uh just before the uh IBM PC came out
ah
well i know uh
my model one i put a lots of you know lots of hours on it
but it was obsolete fairly quickly
it became nothing but a word processor for me so i could do uh
you know do letters and things like that at home
and uh you know i had
let's see i think i had about twenty seven hundred dollars in that little system because i had uh several the floppy drives and all of that
right
and you know twenty seven hundred dollars today will buy you a pretty well equipped four eighty six
uh that's about right yes you can get a a real screamer for twenty seven hundred now it's amazing
yes
it's you look at the computer power that the you know the personal computers put on our desk compare it you know with the you know i guess the the first computer i used with a a 7094 or something like that
and uh i mean you this is the you know you have more sitting in your desk than the whole building then
yes
um my little model one is a thirty two K and i made the great advancement of of uh kicking it up to forty eight K memory
and uh you know that was just a big deal in those days
my first computer came uh i had a four K memory board with with yeah it's four K
four K oh
did you ever wonder what you'd do all with all the four K
well at that time i was programming an assembly language right uh and and i had a cassette tape for my memory
yes
for my storage i didn't have a floppy
and uh
it was uh you know you you there was you there was still a press to have more memory i mean grew went from four to sixteen and it made a big jump to thirty two and you know
yes i uh
i think i paid
what did i pay i paid a
a pretty good chunk of money something like thirty or forty dollars just
to buy the chips to upgrade mine of course
they it already had sockets on the boards because they had already uh
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you know they they had the board set up with the sockets in it so it it wasn't that bad but
yeah yeah
you know now uh
machine i bring home has two megabytes two megabytes of RAM and
