[Coco] Old techies

Frank Pittel fwp at deepthought.com
Tue Feb 10 14:49:37 EST 2009


While I'm a long way away from 74 I'm hardly "new blood"!! I'm currently 45
and the Coco 2 was the first computer I owned that was assembled and working out
of the box!!

Frank


On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:04:01PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Bill wrote:
> >Just out of curiosity, what is the average age of this group. I'm 60, and
> >had my first CoCo in 1980 (that precious grey machine- 4k "baby basic" and a
> >cassette recorder)
> >
> If you'd like to do the averaging, I'm 74.
> 
> Now if we can get the rest of us to admit we're either senior citizens are 
> pretty close, this could be an interesting survey, speak up folks!  Even the 
> youngsters, we drool in our oatmeal over new blood here you know.
> 
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> Cheers, Gene
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