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From: ix742@sdcc6.UUCP (James Hayes)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: A farewell to net.micro.mac
Message-ID: <2666@sdcc6.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Jun-86 15:51:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: sdcc6.2666
Posted: Mon Jun  9 15:51:27 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Jun-86 00:36:35 EDT
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Reply-To: ix742@sdcc6.UUCP (James Hayes)
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Organization: UC Sandy Eggo EECSville.
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Keywords: farewell Germany
Summary: You should see his system...

borton@sdcc3.UUCP (Johann Borton) writes in article <3415@sdcc3.UUCP>:

> This a fond farewell to all of you that made up net.micro.mac and info-mac
> the last two years.  I've learned a great deal here, and hope I helped some
> of you out when possible.

"When possible"?  Did I miss something?  Didn't he respond to just about
anything and everything posted??

>Thank you to all for providing a wonderful medium for discussion and sharing
>of information.  The Mac is indeed wonderful...Chuq, Ephraim, Werner, Darin,
>Larry, and all other wonderful information sources--keep up the great work!

Let me share a few interesting points about Mr. Borton that might
make this dark day in net.history a little bit easier to swallow:

Chris (or Johann as he prefers) has this thing about his Mac.  You
might call him a "purist" but that still might be too weak.  Don't ever
get him started talking about the Mac.  On the phone, via E-mail, or in
person (especially within 10 feet of his bedroom--where Mr. Mac
lives...).

Have I mentioned that Johann is a Mac FANATIC?  No?  Well, lemme
give  you a few clues:

Johann has to be double-clicked before he even thinks about launching
out of bed.  He has to be dragged everywhere.  When he is busy, he
makes himself available as a DA that NEVER goes away. (Not even in
MacDraw)  You exit the borton application by clicking on "bedtime for
Borton..." in the "Daily" menu and clicking "yes" at the "Save today's
changes?" dialog. (Be sure to save the 1-meg ramdisk. And don't
forget about any Johann DA's left open in Switcher...)

Utterance of the words "Lotus" or "I-B-M" are not tolerated. Ever.

Johann's event loop consists of:
   PreachMac
   PostNetMicroMacArticle
   ExecVollyball
   PreachMac
   ExecScuba
   PreachMac
   ExecViola
   
Chris (I mean Johann) has this system:

Mac, New ROMS, 2 Megs of memory, image-writer, Apple 1200baud
modem, 20 Megs of hard disk. (with about 400K free for breathing.)
But poor old Johann has but one 400K drive. 

During his stint in Germany, he will be without many things.  His
stereo, and (god forbid) his CD player will be sitting in Davis all
alone.  So, in honor of Johann's leaving, I have organized the
"Save-Johann-in-Germany" fund.  The fund accepts:

1) Chocolate			7) P.D.Q. Bach Albums
2) Classical CD's.		8) Viola Music
3) Rush CD's.			9) Chocolate
4) 800K disk drives.		a) A Unix Box
5) A portable CD player		b) A car
6) An "I {heart} sdcc3"		c) Chocolate
   tee-shirt.		

Donations to the "Save-Johann-in-Germany" fund may be mailed
directly to the University.

Perhaps our saving grace here is that Johann will still be available in
Davis, California this summer...probably "cow-tipping" as they are
known in Davis for inventing the sport. :-)

I suggest that all who read his farewell note hit their "r"eply key and
send Johann a note full of all the things he's going to miss
about America.  (I know, but try anyway...)  Then maybe he will decide
to stay.