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My brother Scot and I traveled to the College World Series in Omaha June 25-28 to watch our Texas Longhorns play in the Championship Series against the Florida Gators. Click to see a larger version and view more photos from our trip.

Back in the early 90’s I used to run a Bulletin Board System (BBS) called Spanky’s SportsNet. It began with Hermes software on a Mac SE with four megs of RAM and a 20 MB hard disk, and transitioned to First Class software on a Mac IIsi.

Recently while fishing around some old DAT tapes I came across a backup of the SportsNet that was made just before the transition to First Class. On a lark I decided to restore it to a hard disk and see if it would launch. Amazingly enough, Hermes opened up just dandy, complaining only that it didn’t see a modem on the serial port. That’s not surprising since modern day Macs don’t even have serial ports.
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For the fourth consecutive year, the Texas Longhorns are in Omaha for the College World Series. You can keep up with the ‘Horns on the internet as they play against the nation’s best for a chance to win another national championship.
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March is my favorite month in Texas. Sunny days with cool breezes, the “March Madness” of the NCAA College Basketball Tournament, and Spring Break means that winter is over!
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