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The Rural Voice, 1989-09, Page 33patience required to learn the new languages and techniques to make it work. If you do want one, you'll never be able to show a cash flow demonstrating how the computer will pay for itself. Until you start to use it, and find out how it fits into your way of operating and your business needs, you'll have no way of evaluating it from a strictly financial perspective. It could well cost you more money yet still be worthwhile, just as it may make you spend more time, rather than less, on the books. A computer could well cost you more money yet still be worthwhile, just as it may make you spend more time, rather than less, on the books. The act of purchasing a first computer is one ridden with anxieties. One of them is the fear that whatever you buy will be discontinued in six months, or on sale for a third of what you paid. Either that or the week after you get it home the company will unveil its new improved line, instantly rendering your model obsolete. Don't worry about it. The com- puter business won't wait for you; at some point you just have to jump in. Computer technology advances at a lightning pace. Every year the dreamed -of becomes the new reality. As long as your computer does what you want it to do, it doesn't matter what new things are coming on the market. Finally, when you've mastered your computer, tossing off macros and batch files with the best of them, and you get a phone call from someone who starts off, "I was thinking about buying a computer and I heard that you ..." remember Rule Number Five: Be kind.° ALL-PURPOSE AND FIT FOR THE FIELD The All -New American Series from WHITE FARM EQUIPMENT Dependable and rugged, White's all-new American Series has power for the field. Powered by a Cummins 4 -cylinder engine, both 60 and 80 hp models really get you through the field ... at an operating cost that leaves more for your bottom line. And the American Series is available in your choice of four historic colors: Oliver Green, Minneapolis -Moline Gold, Cockshutt Red and White Farm Silver. We've equipped the American Series with standard features that give you the best of the "utility" and "row crop" worlds. • Cast iron main frame • 6 -speed transmission • Adjustable 3 -point hitch And you can choose from options that give you even more big tractor performance. • Posi-trac full power front axle • Electronic 3 -speed power shift • 2nd and 3rd remote detent valves Put economical field power to work for you. See the American Series at your participating dealer today. WHITE FARM EOUIPMIENT C & G FARM SUPPLY Zurich 519-236-4934 RADFORD'S FARM EQUIPMENT Londesboro 519-523-4519 EDGAR S. MARTIN LTD. Wallenstein 519-669-5176 519-669-5661 STANLEY FARM SUPPLY Bervie Teeswater 519-395-2434 519-392-6825 RUSSELDALE FARM EQUIPMENT Mitchell 519-229-8975 CHRIS ZEHR & SONS LTD. Tavistock 519-655-2253 SEPTEMBER 1989 31