[Coco] a bit of coco trivia

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

Can't Google any recent references that are definitely him.  He may still be in Santa Barbara CA in a different line of business.  (At least, that was the return address back when I was a subscriber to CLOAD and Chromasette).  

No confirmable links to a Silversoft that might be him.  That's the name of the PC diskazine that as far as I recall was the last thing they did, but for some reason (dislike of the architecture) I never subscribed

No, I do not have any of my CLOAD or Chromasette materials.  As Poor Richard once said, three removes equal one fire.  I've relocated more than twice that many times since then.  (One more to go).
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Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net

The reason folks don't think of installing Windows as a painful experience is roughly the same reason men don't think of childbirth as a painful experience.      Mike, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/30/letters_3003/

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From: "Bob Devries" <devries.bob at gmail.com>
> 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.
> 
> website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
> my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/ 
> 
> 
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