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

[Mark Marlette]

At 01:33 PM 3/27/2005, Torsten Dittel wrote:

I'm 42. First computer was an RCA Cosmic Elf. The ole timers will know that 
one. I had assembled programs and had a blast. Worked as an assembly tech 
in the RCA1802 processor field of energy management. Flew through the ranks 
and went off to tech school. My father had a CoCo1 and I'll never forget 
running to the mailbox when the Rainbow was due to arrive. Read it over and 
over till the next issue came. Moved to MN and got my 2 year degree. 
Married, kids, and the CoCos. Work for a defense contractor as a Test 
Technician and got so good with design/programming on our ATE system that I 
was hired to run the Midwest Regional office for the system I programmed at 
the defense contractor. Got to work with Ford, Delphi, TRW, Johnson 
Outboard just to name a few on multi-million module lines and engineering 
validation systems. Got burned out and returned six years later to the 
slower paced defense contractor. Same job just as a Test Engineer now. 
Electronics 24/7.

My life has been the CoCo. I'm where I am today because of it and my love 
and drive to want more from it. I was self taught on the CoCo. What I 
learned on it, I applied at work. The papered EE's at work are amazed at 
what we have done with the CoCo. It is a passion, a respect for it.

I'm down a few machines but I did have WELL over fifty CoCo's in my house, 
under twenty now. A tons of everything CoCo.

You got to love it......


>I'd like to see kind of a demographic profile of today's CoCo-Nuts. Age? 
>Profession? etc.
>
>I guess we have two generations here:
>
>The members of the "father generation" who were 40 to 55 years old 20 
>years ago (they should be 60 to 75 now).
>
>The members of the "son generation" who were 15 to 25 years old 20 years 
>ago (they should be 35 to 45 now).
>
>Anyone between out there between 45 and 60?
>
>Torsten
>
>
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