[Tigers] Birthday

[Andrew.]

Mark
Thanks for all you do and I hope you can keep doing it for a long time don’t worry about turning 66. on April 6 I turned 70 still going strong and plan on doing it for a long time  I’ve been been involved with Tigers since my brother bought one new in 1965
Thanks again 
Andrew Heaton 
San Diego

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> On Apr 11, 2020, at 6:08 AM, Mark J Bradakis via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> April 11th.  As many of you know, the domain team.net was officially registered on April 11, 1991, by the late Bill Caloccia.  I have been managing the mailing lists on autox.team.net since then, actually for a while before that.  I took over  from Jim Muller, who took over from Dale Cook, and I wish I had archives of those first few years.  Actually I may have some in my office, on 1/4 inch tape cassettes.  Every now and then I consider trying to revive some of the old HP-UX boxes I have to see if I can still read any of those tapes.  Maybe someday.
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> Anyway, in the beginning I was routing everything through the servers at the University of Utah Computer Science Department, where I was employed.  When my fellow sys admins started noticing just how much network traffic there was on a certain box, my boss strongly suggested I make other arrangements.  So I went about getting a network connection at home.  Back then, it was not that easy, or cheap.  And as I recall, the first dedicated Team Net server was an HP box with one of the first 100+ megahertz CPUs, and even with a deal through HP, who worked closely with the U in those days the system set me back about $2,500.  Hardware has improved since then.  And that money didn't all come out of my pocket, I initiated a fund drive among the list members and got a great response.  Back then it was all checks in the mail, and I mailed a thank you postcard to every contributor, or at least most of them, no doubt I missed a few.  And for some time there was an annual fund drive to cover the rather high cost of having sufficient bandwidth from my house.
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> So here it is 29 and just everybody has fast network available to them.   I dropped the fund drives some years back, though folks do continue to contribute to the cause.  Now a few clicks in Paypal can take care of it, though some still prefer to send checks. Yep, things are different now.  And with the Covid-19 pandemic, a LOT different.  But the Team Net mailing lists are still chugging along, providing those spending more time at home a bit of distraction, entertainment or education as we keep our beloved vehicles rolling along the roads.
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> I plan to keep it going as long as I can, who knows how many years I have left.  April 11th is also my birthday, 66 this year, and I certainly won't live forever.  And I fear that when I die, Team Net will die.  Sigh.
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> But for now, enjoy and stay healthy.
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> mjb.
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