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Very much appreciated by all!!!<div><br></div><div>Derrick<br><br><br><a href="https://yho.com/footer0">Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone</a><br><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: #715FFA; padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0">On Saturday, April 11, 2020, 8:33 AM, Michael Wood via Tigers <tigers@autox.team.net> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div id="yiv1737835597"><div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black;"><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><br clear="none">Thanks for your diligence and hard work, Mark :)<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv1737835597yqt0896703224" id="yiv1737835597yqtfd75002"><br clear="none">-----Original Message-----<br clear="none">From: Mark J Bradakis via Tigers <tigers@autox.team.net><br clear="none">To: tigers <tigers@autox.team.net><br clear="none">Sent: Sat, Apr 11, 2020 6:08 am<br clear="none">Subject: [Tigers] Birthday<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div><div class="yiv1737835597yqt0896703224" id="yiv1737835597yqtfd40966"><div dir="ltr">April 11th. As many of you know, the domain team.net was officially <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">registered on April 11, 1991, by the late Bill Caloccia. I have been <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">managing the mailing lists on autox.team.net since then, actually for a <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">while before that. I took over from Jim Muller, who took over from <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Dale Cook, and I wish I had archives of those first few years. Actually <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">I may have some in my office, on 1/4 inch tape cassettes. Every now and <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">then I consider trying to revive some of the old HP-UX boxes I have to <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">see if I can still read any of those tapes. Maybe someday.<br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Anyway, in the beginning I was routing everything through the servers at <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">the University of Utah Computer Science Department, where I was <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">employed. When my fellow sys admins started noticing just how much <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">network traffic there was on a certain box, my boss strongly suggested I <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">make other arrangements. So I went about getting a network connection <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">at home. Back then, it was not that easy, or cheap. And as I recall, <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">the first dedicated Team Net server was an HP box with one of the first <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">100+ megahertz CPUs, and even with a deal through HP, who worked closely <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">with the U in those days the system set me back about $2,500. Hardware <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">has improved since then. And that money didn't all come out of my <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">pocket, I initiated a fund drive among the list members and got a great <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">response. Back then it was all checks in the mail, and I mailed a thank <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">you postcard to every contributor, or at least most of them, no doubt I <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">missed a few. And for some time there was an annual fund drive to cover <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">the rather high cost of having sufficient bandwidth from my house.<br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">So here it is 29 and just everybody has fast network available to <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">them. I dropped the fund drives some years back, though folks do <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">continue to contribute to the cause. Now a few clicks in Paypal can <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">take care of it, though some still prefer to send checks. Yep, things <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">are different now. And with the Covid-19 pandemic, a LOT different. <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">But the Team Net mailing lists are still chugging along, providing those <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">spending more time at home a bit of distraction, entertainment or <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">education as we keep our beloved vehicles rolling along the roads.<br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">I plan to keep it going as long as I can, who knows how many years I <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">have left. April 11th is also my birthday, 66 this year, and I <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">certainly won't live forever. And I fear that when I die, Team Net will <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">die. Sigh.<br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">But for now, enjoy and stay healthy.<br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">mjb.<br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________<br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net">tigers@autox.team.net</a><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Donate: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.team.net/donate.html">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Archive: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.team.net/pipermail/tigers">http://www.team.net/pipermail/tigers </a><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://autox.team.net/archive">http://autox.team.net/archive</a><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv1737835597yqt0896703224" id="yiv1737835597yqtfd90073">Unsubscribe: </div><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/tigers/mwood24020@aol.com">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/tigers/mwood24020@aol.com</a><div class="yiv1737835597yqt0896703224" id="yiv1737835597yqtfd49462"><br clear="none"></div></div><div class="yiv1737835597yqt0896703224" id="yiv1737835597yqtfd87916"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="yqt0896703224" id="yqtfd29199">_______________________________________________<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net">tigers@autox.team.net</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Donate: <a shape="rect" href="http://www.team.net/donate.html" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br clear="none">Archive: <a shape="rect" href="http://www.team.net/pipermail/tigers " target="_blank">http://www.team.net/pipermail/tigers </a><a shape="rect" href="http://autox.team.net/archive" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/archive</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Unsubscribe: <a shape="rect" href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/tigers/lovemygirls365@yahoo.com" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/tigers/lovemygirls365@yahoo.com</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div>
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