[Coco] Introducing myself - Carlos Bragatto

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 05 April 2007, Carlos Bragatto wrote:
>Hey Gene, back in the day, I used to be an avid Amiga fanatic, erm,
> user, and a guy named Daniel Barrett created a fictitious company
> called "Blazemonger, Inc", and the company's tech support guys were
> named "Gino" and "Luigi"...

You were probably right the first time in your description, I was too. :-)
I still have a 2k with a blank 30GB hard drive in the basement, Pic-II, 
MFC-III, Buddha, A-2090 & A-2065, PP&S 68040 cards with 64 megs of dram 
on it.  Good machine, until the drive upchucked and when the replacement 
drive arrived, I found that the backups I had been making had very 
dutifully obeyed any system file locks, and absolutely none of the 
specialty stuff it took to make it boot, were in the backups.  So much 
for Diavolo-Pro...  As it would have taken me many days of concentrated 
work to re-create all that again, and I'd built a linux box about 6 
months prior, the miggy went into storage without ever being 
resuscitated.

As for Gino and Luigi, they were depicted as a couple of knuckle-draggers.  
Daniel did have a sense of humor until it became clear that the company 
was being looted, after which none of us had a sense of humor at all.

The worst thing I miss about storing the miggy is that there was software 
I co-wrote that only exists as backups on now aging DDS2 tapes on the 
shelf above me.  I still get a request for support occasionally, most 
recently earlier this week in fact.

>Carlao
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