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   Hi Fabio!   
      
   >> How are you doing?  I hope all is good with you and your family in   
   >> this difficult time across the world!   
      
   > We're well, locked in our home we go out only to buy food and basic   
   > necessities,   
      
   Yes, understand exactly what you mean... over here, Ron, my husband, is the   
   only one to go out when we need basic necessities.  One of my very best   
   friends sent us 3 masks that she made herself, it was so kind of her to do   
   that :)  So now when Ron must go out to the store, he can wear one of those   
   masks.   
      
   Just before the Corona Virus hit here in New York, I purchased a large order   
   of beef (I think it was 1/2 a cow IIRC) from one of our local farmers, and I   
   am so glad now that we did that. My freezer is very full with a number of   
   different cuts of beef, so that is good.   
      
   > I hope that you and your family are ok. :)   
      
   Yes, we are fine, thank you :)  My daughter and her 3 sons who live in   
   Philadelphia would normally have come "home" for Easter dinner, but they did   
   not come this year because of the Corona virus threat :(  We did have a video   
   "chat" on Easter evening so that was great to talk with them all, and to see   
   her, her husband and my grandsons in our 'teleconference'... It is not the   
   same as visiting in person, but it was great to talk to them all and to know   
   that they are safe and healthy. :)   
      
   >> I haven't had time to contact   
   >> you since our last emails/netmails quite a while ago (we were talking   
   >> about great Italian recipes).. Today I made a ricotta cake for   
   >> Easter Dinner dessert, and last night I think I made some 100+ ravioli   
   >> for our Easter dinner tonight :)   
      
   > GREAT! :)   
      
   Yes, I froze half of the Ravioli for another time :)  The Ricotta cake came   
   out great, I made it with a delicious crust flavored with marsala wine.    
   Normally, I don't make it with a crust (pie shell)... but because we were   
   eating with just Ron, myself and my son, I made the pie shell as well.  It was   
   a nice change :)   
      
   > We had a sad easter, only my family, usually we are used to spent the easter   
   >holidays with both my parents and my parents in law familys, but this easter   
   >we couldn't.   
      
   I understand... :(   
      
   > But I did the homemade fettuccine and my wife did the sauce with mushrooms,   
   > peas, sausages and cream, and the traditional oven baked lamb with potatoes.   
   > All in all we did not happen badly. ;)   
      
   That sounds so delicious :)  I can imagine how good the sauce with mushrooms,   
   peas, sausages and cream tasted :)  I also love baked lamb... It sounds like a   
   really good dinner.   
      
   >> Sadly because of "Social Distancing" and Covid-19, my Daughter and   
   >> grandsons will not be with us (they live in Philadelphia, quite a   
   >> distance from New York where Ron, my son and I live... but perhaps   
   >> tonight we will try to set up a "Video-chat" between us all... I am   
   >> looking forward to that tonight :)   
      
   > Sometime the technology bring us nearest, sometimes is the opposite, I'm glad   
   > that this time the good one will happen. :)   
      
   Yes, it was great to talk with them all :)   
      
   >> That is interesting, my friend.  Thank you for telling us about that.   
   >> I've never worked on a mainframe, but a long time ago Ron and I did   
   >> some development work on Z80's.. boy that was a long time ago    
      
   > I didn't worked on mainframes, the biggest iron where I worked on was a never   
   >forget VAX 11/780, wonderful machine, I still love it, and I loce VMS O.S. too   
   > :)   
      
   >Now I like to play on emulated PDP/11s and emulated VAXes, RSX-11M-PLUS and VM   
   > are great OSes, do you know that a swedish is still devolping on PDP11s?   
      
   No, I did not know that  :) It's been a long time since I "played" in that   
   world    
      
   > Johnny Billquist has released a TCP/IP suite for the RSX-11M-PLUS O.S.   
   > If you like you can telnet to gnappy.bizzi.org to have a test drive:   
      
   I may do so :)  I did visit his web pages and saw some information there about   
   him :)   
      
   > GUEST login with password "LUTHER"   
   > To log in, type "HELLO" or "LOGIN"   
   > To log out type "BYE" ;)   
      
   > Or if you want to have a trip on VMS telnet ploffy.bizzi.org:   
      
   > GUEST login with no password.   
      
   Thank you for that information, I may take a look some time soon :)   
      
   > Maybe I could start to learn cobol development on these platforms. :P :P :P   
      
   :) :)   
      
   Take care,   
   Janis   
      
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