Subj : Re: Complaint
To   : Roger Nelson
From : Mark Hofmann
Date : Fri Mar 29 2019 19:04:57

RN> Thank you fpr taking my comment in the spirit in thich it was intended, I
RN> was, of course, referring to the egos of those particular Apple owners.
RN> Who could blame them? I mean they shelled out a good bit of coin for a
RN> machine that would run circles around what I owned. And yet, they wanted
RN> me as presidemt. Must have been the free spaghetti dinners I hosted at
RN> our monthly meetings. (-:

I did have to shovel lots of snow and cut lots of lawns back then to save up 
the cash for my first Apple //c.  It was $999 at the time.  All my computer 
friends at the time were on different systems.  I had Atari, Amiga, TI-99, IBM 
XT, and plenty of other systems I can't think of at the moment - all were 
friends.  Didn't matter to me at all, never came to mind.  

RN> I forgot to mention the Heath-Zenith crowd that didn't attend our
RN> meetings, so I went to one of theirs.

I owned (and still have) several Heathkit Weather Stations that I built from 
kit form in that same era.  

RN> I skipped past the 386 and went from 286 to 486. Fond memories from that
RN> time because I was running first OS/2 2.1, then 2.11 and finally Warp 3.
RN> I have Warp 4, but it won't install on this machine.

I remember Apple // ProDOS.  Similar in ways to the PC's DOS.  Started on DOS 
3.3 on the PC, up through 5.0.. Remember Stacker?  

Then off to Windows 3.1, NT 4, all the OS/2's and Windows Server versions ever 
since.  

Who would have thought that I would eventually have the ability to run 
countless operating systems on the same physical server.  I currently have (24) 
VMs running on my home ESXi cluster.  Everything from CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, 
Windows 7, 10, and 2008 R2 + 2016 server.  All on the same system with plenty 
of room for growth..

- Mark

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