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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Happy Birthday, Mark. And thanks for all you have done and continue to do for us!</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Going over to visit Paypal now – time for a birthday gift!</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tony</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:mark@bradakis.com">Mark J Bradakis</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Saturday, April 11, 2020 9:02 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net">triumphs@autox.team.net</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:spitfires@autox.team.net">spitfires@autox.team.net</a><br><b>Subject: </b>[Spits] Birthday</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>April 11th. As many of you know, the domain team.net was officially </p><p class=MsoNormal>registered on April 11, 1991, by the late Bill Caloccia. I have been </p><p class=MsoNormal>managing the mailing lists on autox.team.net since then, actually for a </p><p class=MsoNormal>while before that. I took over from Jim Muller, who took over from </p><p class=MsoNormal>Dale Cook, and I wish I had archives of those first few years. Actually </p><p class=MsoNormal>I may have some in my office, on 1/4 inch tape cassettes. Every now and </p><p class=MsoNormal>then I consider trying to revive some of the old HP-UX boxes I have to </p><p class=MsoNormal>see if I can still read any of those tapes. Maybe someday.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Anyway, in the beginning I was routing everything through the servers at </p><p class=MsoNormal>the University of Utah Computer Science Department, where I was </p><p class=MsoNormal>employed. When my fellow sys admins started noticing just how much </p><p class=MsoNormal>network traffic there was on a certain box, my boss strongly suggested I </p><p class=MsoNormal>make other arrangements. So I went about getting a network connection </p><p class=MsoNormal>at home. Back then, it was not that easy, or cheap. And as I recall, </p><p class=MsoNormal>the first dedicated Team Net server was an HP box with one of the first </p><p class=MsoNormal>100+ megahertz CPUs, and even with a deal through HP, who worked closely </p><p class=MsoNormal>with the U in those days the system set me back about $2,500. Hardware </p><p class=MsoNormal>has improved since then. And that money didn't all come out of my </p><p class=MsoNormal>pocket, I initiated a fund drive among the list members and got a great </p><p class=MsoNormal>response. Back then it was all checks in the mail, and I mailed a thank </p><p class=MsoNormal>you postcard to every contributor, or at least most of them, no doubt I </p><p class=MsoNormal>missed a few. And for some time there was an annual fund drive to cover </p><p class=MsoNormal>the rather high cost of having sufficient bandwidth from my house.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So here it is 29 and just everybody has fast network available to </p><p class=MsoNormal>them. I dropped the fund drives some years back, though folks do </p><p class=MsoNormal>continue to contribute to the cause. Now a few clicks in Paypal can </p><p class=MsoNormal>take care of it, though some still prefer to send checks. Yep, things </p><p class=MsoNormal>are different now. And with the Covid-19 pandemic, a LOT different. </p><p class=MsoNormal>But the Team Net mailing lists are still chugging along, providing those </p><p class=MsoNormal>spending more time at home a bit of distraction, entertainment or </p><p class=MsoNormal>education as we keep our beloved vehicles rolling along the roads.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I plan to keep it going as long as I can, who knows how many years I </p><p class=MsoNormal>have left. April 11th is also my birthday, 66 this year, and I </p><p class=MsoNormal>certainly won't live forever. And I fear that when I die, Team Net will </p><p class=MsoNormal>die. Sigh.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But for now, enjoy and stay healthy.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>mjb.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Spitfires@autox.team.net</p><p class=MsoNormal>Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html</p><p class=MsoNormal>Suggested annual donation $11.47</p><p class=MsoNormal>Archive: http://www.team.net/archive</p><p class=MsoNormal>Forums: http://www.team.net/forums</p><p class=MsoNormal>Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spitfires/tochilds@bellsouth.net</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>