An old friend from the Glory Days of the ISA Forum

Tom Dunlap

Tom Dunlap

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Last week I was in New Hampshire to teach two EHAP programs. At the morning break of the second day a fellow came up and said that he knew me from back in the mid-90's. He had been listening to some of the things I said and it became clear that he knew me.

Back in the early 90's the ISA hosted the web's first, as far as I know, arborist discussion forum. There were a few people that I met there who have become good friends. The first person that I chatted with off-forum was the first person that I met in real life. We've become buddies since then but don't get to see each other much, right Riggs? :)

Another person who goes back to the original forum is Keith Babberney. We've been able to get together a couple of times in Texas.

Dave Spencer's son Brody is another one of my "nephews"

Now, along comes TS from out of the past. It would be too cool to see Wulkie pop in and stay for a while.

How many others have stayed the course from the original ISA Forum?
 
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I'd like to see Wulki turn up here and stir up the pot a bit. He always had something to say that would make you think things over in a new way.
http://users.rcn.com/bobw.enteract/
He calls me out of the blue now and then, but I haven't heard from him in a long time. Hope he is doing well.

k
 
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I chimed in, on an ancient Mac

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From what I remember, that took some dedication. The chatter that I remember, Wulkie :) , was that it wasn't Mac-friendly.
 
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I chimed in, on an ancient Mac

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From what I remember, that took some dedication. The chatter that I remember, Wulkie :) , was that it wasn't Mac-friendly.

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Yea--I actually typed some replies, emailed them to you, and asked that you post them on the forum.
 
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I was there, that was a great forum. Great info and as I remember there wasn't alot of BS. Just don't ask the spell check to correct "arborist", wasn't it.

That's how I met you Tom, with the face to face intro from Pete D. in Baltimore.
 
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Yea--I actually typed some replies [on an ancient Mac], emailed them to you, and asked that you post them on the forum.

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What was the problem? Was the site software not happy with the Mac end-of-line convention or something?

Glen
 
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From what I remember it gagged on Mac stuff.

It's been fun getting my memories booted in this thread. It shows me, again, the family that has developed within the profession.
 
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Unix uses a LF (line feed) control character as a marker for the end of a line of text.

DOS uses the CRLF (carriage return line feed) pair of control characters.

Mac uses a CR control character.

If you think in terms of a line printer, the CRLF pair makes the most sense if what you want is the print head repositioned at the start of the next line. LF by itself leaves the print head where it was laterally, and CR by itself leaves the paper where it was vertically.

In practice, each system intrinsically "knows" what to do, and we see "DOS" contained the underpinnings of bloat MS has become famous for, hahaha!

That the site/newsgroup/bulletin-board software choked on the Mac stuff (wonder what it did with Unix, the oldest of the three?) shows the shortsightedness of the software developer who evidently never ventured outside his/her fishbowl. :)

I'd bet it was indeed a fun time there and then.

Glen
 
Posted there a few times myself. The climber's forum was pretty "wild west." Got pretty raunchy at times. Mostly I partaked in Doug Mellor's forum, particularly Wulkie's "uncensored" forum. Now that was a real hoot! Miss it still today, as I miss ol' Wulkie himself.
 
I was still technophobic in the ISA days; came on Mellor's site toward the end. my goal was to find support for research into fungus-fighting strategies, but got little and got distracted. Had some nice chats with wulkie about this and that, never converted him from his anti-saw stances but it was good practice trying.

We did agree on a lot too. That place was my intro to dunlap, who helped me out more than once since then, glutton me.
 
Wulkowicz isn\'t lost

In case anyone hasn't met Bob, you can find a lot of his writings preserved on the Web. Thanks to Google I got to hear Bob's voice while I read some of his writings.

I talked with Bob this morning. He's in Chicago. We'll be talking more. He said that he has some more new tree ideas.

http://tinyurl.com/a5vbd
 
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