[Coco] a bit of coco trivia

[Bob Devries]

To answer my own question as to the where-abouts of Dave Lagerquist....

I located him. He still lives in Santa Barbara, CA, and still has the "other 
computer" syndrome (his words), and is using a Macintosh.

--
Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia

Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
the capacity to be his spokesman,
so that I know how to help the weary.

website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Devries" <devries.bob at gmail.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 1:55 PM
Subject: a bit of coco trivia


> G'day fellow coco nuts.
>
> While I was scanning the pages of Chromasette for archiving, I found an 
> intersting comment from Dave Lagerquist in the April 1983 issue:
>
> "How do we duplicate the 6000 or so cassettes we send out each month? Rose 
> just doesn't sleep! Really, the programs are read off a disk and sent 
> through a line amplifier to 30 cassette recorders hooked up in parallel. 
> The recorders are controlled by a Color Computer through the microphone 
> jack. The 'random' clicking of 30 buttons lets us know that the tapes are 
> done and that it's time to put in some more blank ones. A heck of a way to 
> make a living..."
>
> Wow, think of it. If each cassette was just 10 minutes long (it may have 
> been more, because Dave always saved two copies of each program), that 
> would equate to 34 hours of time, plus the time taken to re-load the blank 
> cassettes. I guess that was in the pre- fast tape duplicator times.
>
> I wonder where Dave is now?
>
> --
> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>
> Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
> the capacity to be his spokesman,
> so that I know how to help the weary.
>
> website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
> my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/