[pianotech] Farewell Old Friend

[lim hock seng]

Thank you PTG.Thank you Listserve.Thank you listers and listerettes. From
my heart.
Lim
On Apr 1, 2013 9:06 AM, "Susan Kline" <skline at peak.org> wrote:

> **
> Jon mentioned reinvention in his poem -- this seems a good
> time to share my plan for my own list reinvention.
>
> I'm going to googletech -- eventually. But first I have
> some projects to complete.
>
> 1. get into the archive and read the whole list from the
> time it started till the time I joined (Jan. 1997.) Save
> the best of it in word processor files, which can easily
> be moved to different computers on a thumb drive.
>
> and,
> 2. Open up three old computers, still working but long
> retired, all of which have some sorted pianotech emails
> and a huge volume of unsorted pianotech emails. Save the
> best and add them to the word processor files from 1.
>
> Empty the computers, but save them -- they are old. They will
> work so long as they never are allowed within several miles
> of the Internet, so that they cannot "phone home" and wreck
> their nice old simple functional software, the kind modern
> computers carefully refuse even to load. (Has anyone noticed
> what seems to me to be a tendency for modern software to be
> closer to a leasing rather than a purchasing in perpetuity
> experience? They've figured ways to keep us buying.)
>
> I still even have the physical media for the old programs.
> I can use them for basic business, writing, and amusement
> and they will work just as well as when they were the
> latest thing.
>
> So -- see you guys later on, googling away. I hope, in fact,
> to see a few old faces who haven't been on the ptg pianotech
> for years. Well, one can wish ...
>
> There was life and there was piano technology before pianotech --
> and then there was life and piano technology after pianotech,
> three times richer, ten times larger. The only drawback I see
> has been sitting too long and gardening too little. Maybe a
> little determination can sort that out.
>
> Best to all --
> Susan
>
> Jon Page wrote:
>
> Now we lay this down to rest
> Newton's and other's forum was best
> We'll plod along with best intent
> With time and effort to reinvent
>
> RIP
> Newton & Friends
>
> Thanks for the memories
> .
>
>
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