[Tigers] Birthday

[Jim B]

Thank you for all you do! Much appreciated.
Jim

> On Apr 11, 2020, at 10:50 AM, Will Seay via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net> wrote:
> 
> Mark, thanks for all you do.  At 66, you still have a long way to go.  I'm 78 and my one-owner (that's me) Tiger and I are still on the road.  Happy BD MJB and Team.net <http://team.net/>.
> 
> Will - 382001570 
> Tigers at embarqmail.com <mailto:Tigers at embarqmail.com>
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> On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 9:08 AM Mark J Bradakis via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net <mailto:tigers at autox.team.net>> wrote:
> April 11th.  As many of you know, the domain team.net <http://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 <http://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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> But for now, enjoy and stay healthy.
> 
> mjb.
> 
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