Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1993/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The "leica-users" mailing list is run from my home computer, mejac.palo-alto.ca.us. For the last 7 years that computer has been a Microvax II. In 1986 this was a pretty zippy state-of-the-art toy. It's been creaking along on a wing and a prayer and my electronics skills for some time now, obsolete but still working. In July, while I was on vacation, it totally self-destructed, taking 2 of the 4 disks with it and trashing all 5 of the Q-bus cards that I've been so lovingly repairing through the years. Except that there hasn't been a lightning storm here in Palo Alto since 1974, and that my rooftop shortwave antenna amplifier is undamaged, It would seem like lightning must have struck while I was gone. Maybe a cockroach with an arc welder? Anyhow, I pieced together the resources to get a 486 PC, and I installed Unix on it, and laboriously got all of my home computing world, which includes the leica-users mailing list, working on the new computer. Today I finally got the last modem working on the RISCom, for uucp mail, so I'm officially done with the massive project of migrating my e-mail world from a VAX to a PC. I apologize for the interruption, though "leica-users" has by far the lowest volume of any of the various mailing lists that I run. I would like to invite the members (including half a dozen new members for whom this is the first leica-users message that they will receive) to actually send messages to the list. To send: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us To change your membership status: leica-users-request@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Brian Reid