[Coco] 19 years is enough? Or not?

[Tony Schountz]

That should have been "private industry work", LOL.

On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 2:31 PM Tony Schountz <schountz at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've principally a lurker here for these 19 years and before that on
> the Princeton list, but my vote would be to keep it going. I have fond
> memories of my CoCo-2/CoCo-3 days and find it fascinating that there is
> such an active group this long after the demise of these computers. My only
> "claim to fame" in CoCo Land is the Quick Pascal GUI I released many years
> ago for making Pascal-09 programming a bit more friendly on the CoCo-3. I
> wrote my master's thesis on my CoCo-3, and used it during my private work
> for collecting data off a microplate reader used for determining antibody
> titers and basic statistical analysis, then used it quite extensively for
> performing statistical analysis on immune responses during my PhD research,
> until I finally broke down (emotionally and financially!) to buy a Mac
> Centris 610 to replace it.
>
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 8:13 AM Dennis Bathory-Kitsz via Coco <
> coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I started this list 19 years ago when the former Princeton list was
>> spammed into submission.
>>
>> Posts have been slowing down with a lot of people migrating to Facebook.
>> In the past five weeks, we've had just 70 posts.
>>
>> We presently have 583 members on this list. With occasional departures
>> and arrivals, it's never broken 600 (598 was the most).
>>
>> So what do you think? Keep open or shut down? I'm open to either option.
>>
>> Dennis
>>
>>
>>
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