<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Bill we were trying to forget the dark ages ... :P<div><br><div><div>On Sep 17, 2008, at 6:53 AM, <<a href="mailto:blloyd@buskercom.com">blloyd@buskercom.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">10 years ago macs were only nightmares to those who were afraid of them. =) <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Before the “dawn” of Win95<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>EVERYTHING</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was easier on a mac, especially networking. Easier translatated to less work and better overall productivity for both the IT staff and users. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i><u>It just worked</u></i>. There were no 8.3 file name limits, you didn’t have to come up with criptic names for network or printer shares, and you didn’t have to assign letters to network drives. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">With PCs you had to do all kinds of weird stuff just to make them work together. Do any of you remember NDIS drivers and getting them to work? Do you remember how to load the “middleware” that actually let you connect to a network server? Remember BANYAN VINES, LANMAN, PATHWORKS, and NETWARE? Those were the days that an IT guy earned his/her stripes. Take me back….please….take me back….<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">(By the way, I appologize ahead of time for any misspelled words. I still can’t get the Office 2007 spell checker to work.)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div><br><br><div align="left"><p><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 14pt; color: navy; ">Bill Lloyd</span></font><font color="navy"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: navy; "><br>IT Manager</span></font><br><br></p><span><bcilogo25.jpg></span><br><p><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; ">2567 Athens Hwy.<br>Gainesville, GA 30507<br>Phone: 770-417-1604<br>Cell: 404-379-6963</span></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: navy; "><em><a href="mailto:blloyd@buskercom.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">blloyd@buskercom.com</a></em></span></font></p></div></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div></div></body></html>