[Coco] The typical CoCo user is aged...?!?

[Rogelio Perea]

Torsten Dittel wrote:

>I'd like to see kind of a demographic profile of today's CoCo-Nuts. Age?
>Profession? etc.

[ Son ] generation here, 37 currently but 38 is quickly racing in :-)

Shared a CoCo 1 F Board setup with a friend of mine early 80s until father 
broke in and bought me an MC-10 setup as Radio Shack was phasing them out... 
the MC-10 was my first wholly owned PC. At school we had TRS-80 Model Is and 
IIIs at the main lab and later on I worked on the CoCo 1s and 2s the 
Industrial Engineering Lab had... this spanned from 1981 'til 1990 or so. 
First CoCo 3 (purchased 1987) was shared with another IE fellow student then 
bought his part after we completed the job that required the use of the 
computer, and that 512k CoCo 3 still is the "main" machine at my hobby desk.

My son by the way (almost 8 now) is a devoted Nintendo Gamecube fan but if I 
turn on my CoCo 3 he will spend a few hours playing with it, doesn't matter 
to him if the games are CoCo 1/2 artifacted colored with a no-frills 
single-channel soundtrack. My CoCo stuff will probably will end up in his 
posession.

Been in the Commercial Broadcasting industry for a long time (15+ years)... 
many 6809 applications in this field, Eventide VR240 series 
(www.eventide.com) audio logging machines and their Harmonizer 3000 audio 
processor, and Moseley MRC2 telemetry systems (www.moseleysb.com) use this 
micro. Knowing the architecture of the CoCo has helped a lot understanding 
these non-CoCo systems when a hardware problem creeps up.


-=[ Rogelio ]=-