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 > . > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20130401/a35a6215/attachment.htm>
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