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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 20:14:05 -0700
To: "bcheek@san.rr.com" <bcheek@san.rr.com>
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: Supreme Law Systems (present and future)
Thanks Bill. Please understand these things:
1. all the technology I now enjoy is a
pure gift from the Most High; He is
clearly testing our stewardship, to make
the very most of the gifts He has
bestowed on Us; I follow His lead,
and He gives me exactly what I need,
when I need it; that much is now clear
2. Our systems were built on a shoe-string,
because many clients have stiffed me for about
$40,000 during the past 12 months; this
is part of the challenge, and it gives me
no small amount of joy to see flowers bloom
in this "desert" in Tucson, Arizona
3. if it were not for one saavy client of
the Supreme Law School, who could read
between the lines, I would not have had
any food money, after not eating at all
for 5 full days recently
4. DOJ agents put a man in my living room
last year, and he ended up threatening
my life 12 times on the same day, and stealing
$1,300 in other computer equipment (new monitor,
3 power control panels, cash, software, and
ZIP cartridges)
5. another criminal retaliated when I
blew the whistle on his trust scam,
literally threw me out of his office
and stiffed me for $2,100 in back pay,
after appointing me to the office of
Vice President for Legal Affairs of his
trust; I saved this guy from an almost
certain grand jury indictment, and prison,
and this is what I got. Sound familiar?
I call them "phony patriots" (small "p").
They don't understand -- my father was in the
first wave of U.S. Marines to hit Iwo Jima,
and he trudged out of there with a severely
wounded buddy over one shoulder, a carbine
over the other shoulder, and blood gushing
from a shrapnel wound in his neck. He's alive
today.
I am not trying to pull out the crying towel;
everything you are saying, we have already
considered, and dreamed about. Fortunately,
my supplier is totally sympathetic to the
net effects of this financial terrorism:
he just keeps me laughing, with his gentle
professionalism, knowing that tomorrow is
another day. So, I end up buying a cable here,
and a new case there, so I can take it home to
oil the metal hangers for the Western Digitals
I will put in there soon. It will happen;
I now accept the setbacks as more tests of
my patience, and faith.
Pray for Us. Prayer is a very powerful avenue
to our inevitable victory, but, that victory will
happen in God's time, not ours. I am overjoyed
that I can now spend less than $1,000 to buy
computer power that was over a million dollars
during my own computer career (now 26+ years
and running). And, I have very good reason
to believe that the best is yet to come!!
These trends are precious gifts from the Most
High, who has bestowed them on Us in our time
of most urgent and pressing need. Hard disks
will fall 50% in price every year for the next
5 years!!
Remember the DEC VAX: 1 MIP, 1MB, $250,000?
We competed against it at Prime, and lost,
even though PRIMOS was a brilliant virtual
operating system.
For proof of trends, read "The Formation of the Noosphere"
by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, in "The Future of Man",
New York, Harper and Row, 1969 (out of print).
I have the essay in digital form in my database.
Do you want a copy? Choose one: BinHex, MIME, Uuencode.
People on the WELL in Sausalito laughed at me 15 years ago
when I said we should be planning a digital infrastructure
which can accommodate full-motion video and audio. Within
months, digital compact disks swept vinyl long-playing records
right into the trash can.
Now look!! We are symphonic composers, and what we do
is to orchestrate electrons, in ever more vivid images
of a new creation -- freedom reborn to an entire continent,
to an entire planet, and then to an entire Universe and
beyond.
WE are the Noosphere.
Be well!
Sinerely,
/s/ Paul Mitchell
http://www.supremelaw.com
copy: Supreme Law School
At 05:43 PM 7/28/97 -0700, you wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Bill. Don't get me wrong: I really DO
>> want to migrate to Windows 95/FAT32.
>
>IMHO, that much is optional. Your point on the declining
>cost of hard drive space is most valid. I think FAT32 is
>not the reason to change over. It's cool, but not vital.
>
>> Yes, I have two machines: a reliable 486 tower
>> with 16MB RAM and 2.0GB of disks.
>
>Whenever you are ready, that one is a prime candidate
>for a Win95 upgrade. I still treasure my 486's and they
>run Win95/FAT16 just fine. So do my two 386's...... the
>Pentiums are a given, of course......
>
>> This has a solid
>> AT&T 14.4Kbps modem with a lifetime warranty,
>> which I use for fax/modem communication.
>
>This is a good point to inject another (useless?) tip. The
>analog modem (of any speed) is dead and just doesn't know
>it. There are several technologies just around the corner
>that make modems look like snails. AND....there is one
>technology that is just about ready to come to the Phoenix
>area.... Given what you do and your need for speedy, reliable
>communications, I'll venture to submit that you are ready for it.
>
>I'm talking about CABLE MODEM Internet Access!!! (provided
>by your cable TV company - does not require a telephone or
>dialup connection.) There are a number of advantages to this
>new concept.......though it isn't really a "modem".
>
>1. Speed. Faster than four T1's on the downlink and faster
> than a half-T1 on the uplink. My downlink speeds are on
> the order of 8-Mb/sec; uplinks are 768-kb/sec.
>
>2. Connectivity. You can stay connected 24-hrs/day, 7-days
> per week, 365 days per year.... no limit for the one low
> monthly fee. (typically $35-$45/mo)
>
>3. Power. While it may not be recommended, you *can* host
> a server (or multiple servers) from your physical site,
> thus keeping the hosts totally and strictly under your
> *personal control*.
>
>4. Real-time. You can communicate in near-real time with
> others. The instant you get an e-mail, you can reply
> in the next instant - vice versa. You can also do secure
> voice and video in real time.
>
>There is much more, too......but maybe you already know.
>If not....I happen to know that the Phoenix area CATV
>companies are bringing in cable modem internet access in the
>very near future. You could do well to call yours and beg to
>get in on the beta testing phase. Service and possibly the
>installation will be free for that period.
>
>In a word, Paul.....with cable modem service, the Internet
>is *literally* just one of my hard drives....... I downloaded
>an 18-MByte file this morning in 16-something SECONDS. I don't
>think I could get it off the hard drive THAT fast!
>
>Is your curiosity piqued? It better be! This is serious
>stuff, and all you need to do is call your CATV company. Harass
>the hell out of them, if you have to. Sometimes, they like to
>play "secret" games. But it's no secret. Tempe, AZ, is due to
>get cable modem service soon....and if Tempe is, then surely
>most of the rest of Phoenix is due, too.
>
>>........ which I will install as soon as I can setup a new ISP.
>> (Primenet is getting very cold feet about my "politically
>> incorrect" research.)
>
>Ohhhhhhhhhh, what timing! Get your grubby mitts on
>that telephone and find out about cable modem service
>for your area! It's awesome......to make an understatement!
>
>> These two Intel-based machines are currently
>> connected with a LapLink-type parallel cable,
>> over which I do high-speed file transfer with
>> Brooklyn Bridge (a bullet-proof legacy DOS
>> program). So, I can backup the 486 over the
>> parallel cable right to the JAZ disk, which
>> runs off an Adaptec SCSI. This Adaptec also
>> drives an HP 4c scanner.
>
>Sounds like you are about ready for a real LAN, then.
>Cost is surprisingly low. Very low, if you shop around.
>By "low", I'm talking $50 a machine for a peer-to-peer
>ethernet running under Windows 95....using common
>RG-58 coaxial cable. Coaxial cable isn't in vogue these
>days....but it is *secure* and the shielding of the cable
>helps limit radiation of the signal to prying eyes......
>
>As a sidenote.....with a LAN and a cable modem service,
>any of your machines can access the Internet by any
>of several methods...... one at a time or simultaneously.
> (this is more of the power of Win95!)
>
>> There is a lot to be said for this superior level of reliability
>> (one of my paramount objectives for computer systems).
>
>Likewise! I run ten machines on a Win95 LAN with one
>machine dedicated as an NT4.0 server for the security.....
>and despite everything, the system is stable and reliable.
>
>> I would much prefer the Brooklyn
>> Bridge approach, because I can run it unattended,
>> while in the shower, at dinner, etc.
>
>Don't lose sight of the benefits of a real LAN....that can
>also run unattended.....night and day.....
>
>> I was hoping for a large 25-50GB
>> RAID, with a single letter drive, but this, alas,
>> requires the cost and sophistication of a big
>> SCSI-III controller. So, we are going to fall back
>> to a JAZ rack, which supports 4 JAZ cartridges at
>> 1GB each, SCSI controlled. These are resilient,
>> and a very reliable medium for backups with
>> random access as well (no spinning tapes to find
>> the file(s) you need).
>
>Indeed! And maybe......just maybe....most important of
>all......you can make backups and store them OFF SITE !
>You'd not be dead in the water in the event Komrad Klintax
>and his legions attacked at dawn and carted off all your
>hardware and data. Off site storage of backups and borrowed
>machines (friends, neighbors, countrymen....) could get you
>right back up again......quick!
>
>> Once we are on Pentiums which all have Win95/FAT32,
>> we will upgrade them all with Network Interface Cards ("NIC"),
>> and begin a small 3-system LAN with the embedded
>> network features of Win95 .....
>
>Okay....you got a plan. THAT is the most important
>thing. Planned progress beats luck most of the time.
>
>> That's all for now. I do enjoy you keen insights
>> about technology. I do very much want the benefits
>> of superior memory management, but that, unfortunately,
>> is not the only, nor the most important, consideration
>> for this 7GB+ database we have developed, and now watch
>> over like a mother hen.
>
>Cable modem......the Internet....and even a secure LAN
>over the Internet....will go a long way to easing frazzled
>nerves. Most important of all.....get that data backed up
>and retained in safe keeping OFF SITE! The speed of a
>cable modem will go a long way to keeping costs down
>and reliability up.....since you could then do secure backups
>in real time.....at any time....and never leave the premises
>to get that data off site.
>
>Put it on your punch list to investigate the up and coming
>science of secure LANs over the Internet. Encryption and
>high speed realtime access make it feasible at low cost!!!
>
>We may win yet, Paul! Or, at least keep from losing.... :-)
>
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