[Coco] A first CoCo user age chart!!! :-)

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Mike

Being a hardware engineer, Software was always there to cheaply 
correct an unexpected hardware problem that was encountered in a 
design. 


All to often it was easier to patch software than to go for another 
mask of the IC. 

james

On 2 Apr 2005 at 15:24, KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:

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> 
> In a message dated 4/1/05 9:46:59 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
> alxevans at concentric.net writes:
> 
> >Before ADM Hopper and after Ada Lovelace, there was a period where 
> >the powers that be considered programming to be a secretarial task
> >and  as such assigned it almost exclusively to  women.
> 
> 
> 
> True enough.  In my early years at Bell Labs, I was told to emphasize 
> my hardware design work and play down any programming I did (including
> inside my  designed devices), since software was regarded as "skirt
> work" and not real  engineering.
> 
> Firmware was what I ended up liking the best -- just one or two ROM
> chips  to make the hardware sing and dance -- Mike K.
> 
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