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

[Dezorian]

On March 27, 2005 01:33 pm, Torsten Dittel wrote:
> I'd like to see kind of a demographic profile of today's CoCo-Nuts. Age?
> Profession? etc.

Damn, this is what I miss when I fail to check this email account!

I'm a 32-year old Warehouse Manager in Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada), and I got 
my first 64K Coco 2 in 1985, when I was twelve.  I played on the thing 
day-and-night, getting myself hooked on text adventures like the Mark Data 
games Seaquest, Calixto island, Black Sanctum, Trekboer, and Shenanigans.  I 
bought a second-hand Coco 3 in 1990, upgraded it later that year to 512K and 
OS-9 Level II (which I am sad to say I never got into).

I ended up selling both my Cocos (and all the peripherals) when I went to 
College two years hence, and picked up a Tandy 1000RL with the proceeds 
(inexplicably required an MSDOS machine for my course).  Since then, I have 
accumulated nearly 60 computers (they follow me home), ranging from generic 
PCs to Amigas (six of 'em), nearly twenty Macs, a few Unix machines (Sun 
Sparcstations, SGI boxes, and a pair of IBM RS/6000 machines), but I can 
honestly say NONE of them are ANYWHERE NEAR as fun as my old Coco!

I've managed to pick up a used Coco 3 and peripherals (eBay!), and it's almost 
as if I never left!  I'm glad to see many of you have been keeping the torch 
going!

Shaun Wheeler
aka Dezorian/Conceited Jerk/Pretentious Nickname

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