uh let's see personal computers
yes
so do you use them
uh yes um we own one
terrific what kind
uh its an Emerson eighty eighty six um two low density floppy drives and no hard drive yet
but uh you know it's it comes in mighty handy
mostly for word processing type things
uh yeah a big chunk of it's word processing we're also taking programming classes and uh so there's a fair amount of programming getting done on it but uh
the uh right now we got a project going we're trying to put um all my wife's stray recipes on the disk
nice did you buy a program to handle menus
uh it came with a menus program but uh that doesn't it is maceboast excuse me mostly kind of a pain in the neck without a hard drive
oh yes
and hopefully sometime this spring we'll be able to get one and get it configured
there's eighty eighty eight is what you said
eighty eighty six
eighty oh gosh it's worth your time to just upgrade they're so darned cheap now
which
computers
ah
impoverished college student
oh no
this one went on a credit card and we got a way out while to pay it off yet so it's
ah i've i've got one at home too it's a three eighty six thirty three megahertz forty four meg RAM RAM and hundred and thirty meg drive and
uh
oh that sounds nice
super VGA and yeah it's fun i do programming too my job is uh EDP auditor and so i'm into computers all the time
EDP
electronic data processing
okay
that sounds like a fine job
yeah i really enjoy it and it treats me well
yes
uh what are you studying in college computers
ah computer engineering
how nice
well it's computer engineering technology uh which uh it's all i can understand is just this slightly more hands on version of computer engineering
but i've got a ways to go yet so far most of what i've done is getting gotten core classes out of the way taken some electronics classes
and one class in um with computer logic
how they work is fascinating to me
oh yes yeah i rather enjoy it myself the uh lab for that uh um computer logic class was a lot of fun
was it did you
yeah we got to hook up a few uh counters and and uh decoders encoders
hardware stuff huh
yeah
what do you think of that fuzzy logic
i've not gotten a chance to work with it although um my uh my data structures teacher was telling us something about why how fudgy fuzzy logic works as far as the concept behind it
uh-huh
now how you'd implement that uh software wise or mechanically i don't know but uh it sounds like a very impressive piece of piece of work
yeah they're pretty amazing
uh i've written a couple of programs for commercially uh
yes
and it's a fun field
in the fuzzy logic direction
what no in uh
no just regular uh but you have to take into account you know with any computer program all the type of things people can do to you uh to make your program crash or things you normally don't consider
yeah
entering bad information of one sort or another and
yeah pushing certain keys certain times and
yeah
messing up your files and things like that
uh-huh
and your gonna
be an engineer a computer engineer type
uh yeah well the what the computer well the CET program seems to be so far is just a broad based specialized from
you get programming a fair fair amount of programming you get uh hardware you get uh
more or less uh
you get basic electronics courses that uh deal with
you know not only the digital circuitry but uh you know power supplies and and uh just the whole gamut but mostly towards uh computer electronics
so the idea is that um you can go in a variety of directions from CET major but i say i have more fun with the hardware than i do with the software
so you know i pretty much plan on i mean so far i'm planning to go in the engineering direction
i don't
that's good uh
