[Coco] [cocoio]To each, in his/her own interest....

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 18 June 2013 07:40:43 Mark McDougall did opine:

> On 18/06/2013 2:43 PM, George Ramsower wrote:
> >   I'm curious. are there any females on this list that have a real
> >   interest
> > 
> > in the Coco?
> 
> My business partner's wife has long held an interest in computer - and
> retro computer - games and programming. She is actually a very capable C
> and assembler (various processors including the 8086) programmer.
> 
> Unfortunately (for us) her retro interests revolve mainly around the
> Commodore computers (C64 & Amiga) and early DOS machines. I'm not sure
> she has ever seen a Coco running, unless it was one of mine or the
> Coco3FPGA I had running here in the office a while back.
> 
> I'm also struggling to recall a single female at any of the old computer
> clubs I attended with my father (both TRS-80 & Coco) in the 70's & 80's.
> That would go a long way to explaining why there's none here now I
> guess...
> 
> I don't think it's just a "Coco thing" either... I studied computer
> science back in the 80's and of a class of just over 100, you could have
> counted the females on one hand. Of those, I know at least two of them
> went immediately into sales jobs after graduating; they were never going
> to cut code let-alone be interested in playing with old computers some
> 30 years later.
> 
> I'm thinking to balance things up a bit we should get someone like Gene
> to wear a dress when he's answering emails on this list, and we should
> all hereafter refer to him as "Genie". Fortunately there's no binaries
> allowed so he can't post any pictures! ;)
> 
> Regards,

That for sure wouldn't improve my looks.  Scary even. :)

Cheers, Gene
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