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<div> <font size="2">Happy Birthday, Mark! And thank,you for all of the time you put in and your hard work.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Jay De Pol</font><br>
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From: Mark J Bradakis via Fot <fot@autox.team.net><br>
To: fot@autox.team.net <fot@autox.team.net><br>
Sent: Sat, Apr 11, 2020 10:00 am<br>
Subject: [Fot] Birthday<br>
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<div dir="ltr">April 11th. As many of you know, the domain team.net was officially <br>
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<div dir="ltr">registered on April 11, 1991, by the late Bill Caloccia. I have been <br>
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<div dir="ltr">managing the mailing lists on autox.team.net since then, actually for a <br>
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<div dir="ltr">while before that. I took over from Jim Muller, who took over from <br>
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<div dir="ltr">Dale Cook, and I wish I had archives of those first few years. Actually <br>
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<div dir="ltr">I may have some in my office, on 1/4 inch tape cassettes. Every now and <br>
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<div dir="ltr">then I consider trying to revive some of the old HP-UX boxes I have to <br>
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<div dir="ltr">see if I can still read any of those tapes. Maybe someday.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Anyway, in the beginning I was routing everything through the servers at <br>
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<div dir="ltr">the University of Utah Computer Science Department, where I was <br>
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<div dir="ltr">employed. When my fellow sys admins started noticing just how much <br>
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<div dir="ltr">network traffic there was on a certain box, my boss strongly suggested I <br>
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<div dir="ltr">make other arrangements. So I went about getting a network connection <br>
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<div dir="ltr">at home. Back then, it was not that easy, or cheap. And as I recall, <br>
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<div dir="ltr">the first dedicated Team Net server was an HP box with one of the first <br>
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<div dir="ltr">100+ megahertz CPUs, and even with a deal through HP, who worked closely <br>
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<div dir="ltr">with the U in those days the system set me back about $2,500. Hardware <br>
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<div dir="ltr">has improved since then. And that money didn't all come out of my <br>
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<div dir="ltr">pocket, I initiated a fund drive among the list members and got a great <br>
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<div dir="ltr">response. Back then it was all checks in the mail, and I mailed a thank <br>
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<div dir="ltr">you postcard to every contributor, or at least most of them, no doubt I <br>
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<div dir="ltr">missed a few. And for some time there was an annual fund drive to cover <br>
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<div dir="ltr">the rather high cost of having sufficient bandwidth from my house.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">So here it is 29 and just everybody has fast network available to <br>
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<div dir="ltr">them. I dropped the fund drives some years back, though folks do <br>
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<div dir="ltr">continue to contribute to the cause. Now a few clicks in Paypal can <br>
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<div dir="ltr">take care of it, though some still prefer to send checks. Yep, things <br>
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<div dir="ltr">are different now. And with the Covid-19 pandemic, a LOT different. <br>
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<div dir="ltr">But the Team Net mailing lists are still chugging along, providing those <br>
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<div dir="ltr">spending more time at home a bit of distraction, entertainment or <br>
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<div dir="ltr">education as we keep our beloved vehicles rolling along the roads.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I plan to keep it going as long as I can, who knows how many years I <br>
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<div dir="ltr">have left. April 11th is also my birthday, 66 this year, and I <br>
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<div dir="ltr">certainly won't live forever. And I fear that when I die, Team Net will <br>
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<div dir="ltr">die. Sigh.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">But for now, enjoy and stay healthy.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">mjb.<br>
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