[Coco] Typical coco users age etc.

[Mike Fisher]

Torsten Dittel wrote:
I'd like to see kind of a demographic profile of today's CoCo-Nuts. Age? 
Profession? etc.

I'll be 64 this year but am not presently using the Coco - but I have 
plans to return to it.
I started off in home computing with machine language on a Motorola 6800 
with a whole 256 bytes of ram, Mikbug  and octal switches to enter the 
data. My first 'real' program controlled a simple traffic light 
intersection and used 36 bytes if biological ram serves. I was quite 
pleased with myself until I saw the instructors on my course at the time 
which did it with eleven!
I then moved onto a SWTC home built computer which eventually made it up 
to having a Monitor and Keyboard, teletype and modem and a massive 16k 
of memory and BASIC.
Then came the Coco

I started with a Coco1 in and eventually moved up to a Coco3 which I 
added a hard drive to and built into a small tower case with three disk 
drives. It was running NitrOS-9 when last used about six years ago. I 
came across this list about four months ago and have followed the 
discussions with interest.
I spent a lot of time in the Toronto Color Computer Club, the good old days!
It's a great machine and I hope to run it again later this year when a 
few other things are finished.

I am semi retired these days, now running a small computer repair business.
regards,
            Mike Fisher, Toronto