[Coco] a bit of coco trivia

[Bob Devries]

G'day fellow coco nuts.

While I was scanning the pages of Chromasette for archiving, I found an 
intersting comment from Dave Lagerquist in the April 1983 issue:

"How do we duplicate the 6000 or so cassettes we send out each month? Rose 
just doesn't sleep! Really, the programs are read off a disk and sent 
through a line amplifier to 30 cassette recorders hooked up in parallel. The 
recorders are controlled by a Color Computer through the microphone jack. 
The 'random' clicking of 30 buttons lets us know that the tapes are done and 
that it's time to put in some more blank ones. A heck of a way to make a 
living..."

Wow, think of it. If each cassette was just 10 minutes long (it may have 
been more, because Dave always saved two copies of each program), that would 
equate to 34 hours of time, plus the time taken to re-load the blank 
cassettes. I guess that was in the pre- fast tape duplicator times.

I wonder where Dave is now?

--
Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia

Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
the capacity to be his spokesman,
so that I know how to help the weary.

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