Tandem Tables server turns 17

[jawjahboy]

Tandemtables server will be 17 years old next Wednesday. It began when Sally approached Arbor hosting, struck a lease deal and recruited 9 others to share the adventure. We are self managed, with technical help from Arbor. It has been a team effort through the years. Sammi and Sally hacked in our emails and subdomains at first.
(hacking is a programmer's term for adding functionality to software or installing software into hardware)

I hacked in uploaders, gzip routines and search and replace functions in our FMs. Linda has been working hard on mail lists and this forum. Most of our members were on WebTV only when we started. I was new to PC and I got the honor of cleaning up our messes -- which were many ---LOL.

Sally and others were a big influence on Arbor's taking on many WebTV users and using some version of our File Manager. Funny I don't even know what Arbor's FM looks like or what it does. It is probably the only WebTV friendly FM I have never seen (other than some of my server mate's self customizations). Our partners numbered 16 at one time, but alas; illness, death and other reasons have reduced our numbers to 5.

The state of the server is strong. We'll be here to turn 18. Boy! how we miss Sally.