[Coco] A first CoCo user age chart!!! :-)

[KnudsenMJ at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/28/05 10:24:33 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
james at skwirl.ca writes:

>What's funny is that my mother bought our first CoCo, and was the  first 
>one to type in all those Rainbow programs. My dad never really  touched 
>the thing. :)



What the hey -- the world's first computer programmer was a woman, actually  
a girl.  Ada Lovelace, daughter of poet Byron, as a child got a look at one  
of Charles Babbage's first machines, and intuitively understood how it  worked. 
 Later in life she helped him prepare some "prgrams" for his  Analyzer.
 
It was fun when I worked at Bell Labs, to see housewives who had just  joined 
the work force come in as contract workers.  Some with college  majors like 
History and German found they had a real knack for  programming!   One gal got 
deep in 360 Assembler and just ate up Hex  core dumps.
 
You just never know till you try it -- Mike K.