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

[Jim Cox]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:15:45 EST
  KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

And let's not forget Admiral Grace Hopper 
http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/hopper.html

-Jim