[Coco] Good memories with Mr. Bjork

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday, July 29, 2010 09:32:10 am Mark Marlette did opine:

> I **think** that is the article that asks Steve who is his favorite
> programmer?..Reply, I am...or something like that.
> 
> I loved it, killer response! Aaron, it was a GREAT article and does take
> a person back in time. I need to go back and read it again!
> 
> Just to mention a few of these people that molded our lives.....
> 
> Terry Ritter, John Dumas, Don Weiss on the hardware side, Steve Bjork
> and many others on the software side.
> 
> Not sure about others but I do think about what if...We never had this
> machine or these people that dedicated so much of their life to this
> processor/machine!
> 
> Thank you all!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark
> Cloud-9

We would, Mark, all of us, be much the poorer for never having known the 
coco.  And its just as likely we would not be able to look back fondly at a 
circle of friends that has endured, in my case, for about 25 years, fully 
1/3rd of my life.  Some of us have likely never met face to face, but we 
are still friends none the less.

There are some machines that have that enduring magic to some.  For me that 
magic was first in the coco, then the amiga, but it has faded, while the 
coco endures.  Yeah, I'm running linux these days, but my coco-3 is alive 
and reasonable well, sitting in the basement with only the monitor turned 
off right now.  If I was root, I'd have perms to access /dev/ttyS1 and log 
into it from here with a session of minicom.  I gotta fix that...

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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