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

[L. Curtis Boyle]

    37 (38 later this year). Started on the Coco 1 in 1981, just after  
grade 8 and getting a bit of experience on the Apple II+ and Commodore  
PET. Helped me get my current job as Data Processing Manager for a  
specialized print shop.

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 15:29:01 -0500, Ward Griffiths <wdg3rd at comcast.net>  
wrote:

> On 03/27/2005 02:33 pm, Torsten Dittel wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Certainly.  I didn't get  into micros until I got out of the USAF in  
> '78, took
> a programming class at a community college (part of the requirements for  
> a
> math major) and wound up involved with a TRS-80 (later renamed Model  
> One).
> Got into the Color Computer when I went to work for RS in late 1980 as an
> instructor (later customer support rep).  The Coco has always been my
> favorite 8-bit hardware, though Tandy Xenix transformed my career and I
> expect to run Linux and its successors for the rest of my life.  Oh  
> yeah, I
> turn 50 in two months.



-- 
L. Curtis Boyle