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

[Boisy G. Pitre]

This "father-son" pattern is an interesting one, but alien to my 
experience.  My father did not have any interest in the CoCo; in fact, 
he saw it as a waste of time, and became irritated because of the 
amount of time I would stay on it, including late into the night.  Of 
course, it didn't help that I ran the phone bill up to past $500 in one 
month calling BBSs listed in the Rainbow :)  He was quite upset, and I 
worked all summer at a fast food restaurant to pay off that mistake.

After getting on at Microware, however, he began to understand the full 
impact and value that the CoCo had for me.

On Apr 2, 2005, at 3:21 PM, David Macias wrote:

> That story is one of the best growing-up tales since "A Christmas
> Story."
>
> David
>
> On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 21:05 +0200, Torsten Dittel wrote:
>> I'm from the Son group. I remember the day when my Dad came home 
>> without
>>   using the door bell like always but his keys. Of course he aroused
>> suspicion with this uncommon behaviour and when my Mom caught him
>> tiptoeing upstairs to his room with a big(!) boxed CoCo1 behind his
>> back, the only alibi he found was to say "This is the new computer for
>> our son, kids have to learn using this stuff nowadays!" or something
>> like this. As a witness of this situation of course I was nailing him
>> down to his statement each time he was using the CoCo and didn't want 
>> to
>>   let me work with it. Finally he had to buy another one for myself...
>>
>> PS: I guess he was so chicken-hearted because my Mom read before in 
>> one
>> of those Women's Magazines that computers are like a disease and if 
>> they
>> enter a family, they will drive any marriage into a divorce or 
>> something
>> like that... ;-))))))))
>>
>>
>>
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