Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Thanks

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Steven G. Price wrote:

> I Can't tell you how much I missed this discussion group last month. 
> Being old, poor, and uneducated I have nothing to add so I just read 
> what you think about on these various subjects. I have been using Linux 
> now for the past 12 years, that's the reason I joined this list almost 3 
> years ago. Now I almost feel like I know most of you. The first thing I 
> do after getting out of bed is check my mail to see what today's topic 
> is going to be.

Thanks for filling us in.  I used Linux for the first time in November of 
1996 in a coffee shop in San Francisco.  It's funny that I still have an 
old email message that says something about it (below).  They really 
spoiled me there -- it was all free.  I was impressed that you could run a 
nice UNIXy OS on relatively inexpensive hardware and get a color monitor 
without paying $3,000 to Sun (which is what people were paying back in 
those days for the Sun color monitors, and Sun boxes did not allow for use 
of standard monitors.  Linux was still pretty new back then but it really 
worked, at least well enough for the coffee shop.

Mike


Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 10:51:13 -0600 (CST)
From: Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
To: Sidonie <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
Cc: JavaNet Technical Support <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
Subject: Re: your service -- response

On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Sidonie wrote:
> Other individuals pay $6/hour to use the cafe' computers.  I 
> think you'll find that using a computer that is sitting on top of a T1 is 
> well worth the price -- it's a lot of fun, a lot of speed.

T1 is what I use all day every day.  Used to be 10-base-T into a T3, and
was probably faster.  I don't pay anything for it out of my pocket.  When
I was in San Francisco a few weeks ago I used the computers at Coffee.Net
(http://www.coffeenet.net/) for many hours (Linux PCs and 128 Kb frame
relay line) and didn't pay at all.  (They now have a $5 minimum purchase,
but that wasn't in place when I was there.)  That doesn't mean I won't use
yours, but I won't feel like it's a bargain if I do.

Mike

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