...we stand on the shoulders of giants... Perhaps, after all, it is fitting that the list ends today... Does anyone remember the name of the pre-list (pre-1994) RSS feed that morphed into the Mosaic-based chat room? Enquiring Minds, and all that. Kind regards. Horace Susan Kline <skline at peak.org> wrote: >I found it. Though I hadn't known Newton all that long, it was very >hard >reading. It starts: > ><< > >Dear Friends and Colleagues > >This is the finale. > >I am no longer working at Rutgers. > >I have been on sick leave since 12/23/96. >> > >and goes on from there. > >It took me a few minutes of fiddling to get sorted in the old archive, >which probably >ends tonight ... even a short visit shows me so many names I wish I >were still seeing. > >Here's a link -- no telling if it will work for you, or how long. > >https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/1997-January/012750.html > >I'm going to go take a peek at 1994, those days I never have read. >Apparently this >is all going to be available on my.ptg eventually. But I can see some >of it tonight, >so I will. > >Susan > > >David Skolnik wrote: >> I'ts maybe a little ironic that Susan references her date of joining >- >> January 1997. I had been looking for a paper copy I had made of one > >> of Newton's posts...probably the most gut wrenching, painful letters >> I've ever had to read. My archived pianotech posts from that period >> did not, as far as I know, survive one or two hard drive crashes, but > >> I had printed this out, for some reason. It seems somehow fitting to > >> reference it now, at this hour. Presumably, it's still sitting in >the >> archives, but I was never that fluent in their use. Maybe it's time. > >> Here's the information, for anyone who is interested: >> >> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 22:42:11 -500 >> From: Newton Hunt <nhunt at rci.rutgers.edu> >> Subject: CYA - finale >> Sender: owner-pianotech at byu.edu >> To: pianotech at byu.edu >> Reply-to: pianotech at byu.edu >> >> I am extremely grateful to him for his help, over the years I knew >> him, and to the list communities that grew ( and continue to grow) >out >> of those early efforts. >> >> It will be interesting to see if this is, in fact a moveable feast. >> If we all find ourselves together, in a different space, and we have >> our archives (?), maybe less has changed than we think. >> >> Hope to continue eating with you. >> >> David Skolnik >> Hastings on Hudson, NY >> >> >> >> >> At 09:06 PM 3/31/2013, Susan Kline 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 >>>> . >>> No virus found in this message. >>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com> >>> Version: 2013.0.3267 / Virus Database: 3161/6217 - Release Date: >03/31/13 >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20130331/5b8d1f3f/attachment.htm>
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