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   PID: WWIV BBS v. 424    
   TID: WWIVTOSS v. 1.52    
      
   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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