Indeed! And time it was! Our lab rented an open phone line to a mainframe so that we could have our coveted BITNET address (with one e-mail account, shared by the whole lab…)
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Your situation so very closely paralleled mine! Much sympathy. I wasn’t at UCLA but a local government of 1200+ employees, all on PCs save for a half dozen Macs. First Mac was a Lisa. I once needed an upgrade (budgeted) but the IT folks refused to allow it until our department head went to bat for me. I remember getting a modem, Compuserve, Netscape and listservs. I had to maintain my Mac myself but never to the extent of having to learn DOS commands. At home, we bought in to the whole Apple eco system and I’ve had roughly the same number of desktops and laptops as you plus iPads, iPhones and iPods. Through it all, TidBits has been there as a great resource. Thanks, Adam, Tonya, et al.
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@ace I finished listening this morning to your episode on The Talk Show with John Gruber, Adam. It was a great episode. Congrats to you and Tonya on 30 years.
(It’s here https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2020/05/08/ep-284 plus, of course, on your podcast player of choice.)
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Glad you liked it! I had huge fun talking with Gruber. I did several other podcasts in connection with the anniversary, and there isn’t much overlap, so I’d encourage anyone looking for a little Mac nostalgia to give them a listen.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You have helped me immensely through so many years.
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