Subj : Re: Complaint
To : Roger Nelson
From : Mark Hofmann
Date : Fri Mar 29 2019 07:04 pm
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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