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TSM Economices of Scale
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While I am not trying to start a blogfight with fellow blogger Scott Waterhouse from EMC, his latest post about TSM is just distasteful. Quick recap:
"So does TSM scale? Sure! Just add more servers. But this is not an economy of scale. Nothing gets less expensive as the capacity grows. You get a more or less linear growth of costs that is directly correlated to the growth of primary storage capacity. (Technically, it costs will jump at regular and predictable intervals, by regular and predictable and equal amounts, as you add TSM servers to the infrastructure--but on average it is a direct linear growth. Assuming you are right sized right now, if you were to double your primary storage capacity, you would double the size of the TSM infrastructure, and double your associated costs.)"
I talked about inaccurate vendor FUD in my post [The murals in restaurants], and recently, I saw StorageBod's piece, [FUDdy Waters]. So what would "economies of scale" look like? Using Scott's own words:
So, I have demonstrated how savings through economies of scale are achieved using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. Adding one more person in each case is cheaper than the first person. The situation is not linear as Scott suggests. But what about larger deployments? IBM TS3500 Tape Library can hold one PB of data in only 10 square feet of data center floorspace. The IBM TS7650G gateway can manage up to 1 PB of disk, holding as much as 25 PB of backup copies. IT Analysts Tony Palmer, Brian Garrett and Lauren Whitehouse from Enterprise Strategy Group tried IBM TSM v6.1 out for themselves and wrote up a ["Lab Validation"] report. Here is an excerpt:
The majority of Fortune 1000 customers use IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, and it is the backup software that IBM uses itself in its own huge data centers, including the cloud computing facilities. In combination with IBM Tivoli FastBack for remote office/branch office (ROBO) situations, and complemented with point-in-time and disk mirroring hardware capabilities such as IBM FlashCopy, Metro Mirror, and Global Mirror, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager can be an effective, scalable part of a complete Unified Recovery Management solution.
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Tony Pearson Joins the Quarter Century Club
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This Thursday, June 16, 2011, marks IBM's Centennial 100 year anniversary. It happens to also be my 25th anniversary with IBM Storage. To avoid conflicts in celebrations, we decided to celebrate my induction into the "Quarter Century Club" (QCC) last Friday instead.
My colleague Harley Puckett was master of ceremonies. Here he is presenting me with a memorial plaque and keychain. Harley mentioned a few facts about 1986, the year I started working for IBM. Ronald Reagan was the US President, gasoline cost only 93 cents per gallon, and the US National Debt was only 2 trillion US dollars!
Here are my colleagues from DFSMShsm. From left to right: Ninh Le, Henry Valenzuela, Shannon Gallaher, and Stan Kissinger. I started in 1986 as aa software developer on DFHSM, and slowly worked my way up to be a lead architect of DFSMS.
Here are my colleagues from Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). From left to right: Matt Anglin, Ken Hannigan and Mark Haye. I first met them when they worked in DFDSS, having moved from San Jose, CA down to Tucson. While I never worked on the TSM code itself, I did co-author some of the patents used in the product and other products like the 3494 Virtual Tape Server that makes use of TSM internally. I also traveled extensively to promote TSM, often with a TSM developer tagging along so they can learn the ropes about how to travel and make presentaitons.
Here are my colleagues from the disk team. From left to right: Joe Bacco, Carlos Pratt, Gary Albert, and Siebo Friesenborg. I worked on the SMI-S interface for the ESS 800 and DS8000 disk systems needed for the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center. Joe leads the "Disk Magic" tools team. Carlos and I worked on qualifying the various disk products to run with Linux on System z host attachment. Gary Albert is the Business Line Executive (BLE) of Enterprise Disk. Siebo Friesenborg was a disk expert on performance and disaster recovery, but is now enjoying his retirement.
Here are my colleagues from the support team. From left to right: Max Smith, Dave Reed, and Greg McBride. I used to work in Level 2 Support for DFSMS with Max and Dave, carrying a pager and managing the queue on RETAIN. We had enough people so that each Level 2 only had to carry the pager two weeks per year. On Monday afternoons, the person with the pager would give it to the next person on the rotation. On Monday, September 10, 2001, I got the pager, and the following morning, it went off to help all the many clients affected by the September 11 tragedy.
I worked with Greg McBride when he was in DFSMS System Data Mover (SDM), and then again in Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication (TPC-R), and now he is supporting IBM Scale-Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS).
Standing in the light blue striped shirt is Greg Van Hise, my first office-mate and mentor when I first joined IBM. He went on to be part of the elite "DFHSM 2.4.0" prima donna team, then move on to be an architect for Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM).
I wasn't limited to inviting just coworkers, I was also able to invite friends and family. Here are Monica, Richard, and my mother. Normally, my parents head south for the summer, but they postponed their flights so that they could participate in my QCC celebration.
From left to right: my father, Greg Tevis, and myself. It was pure coincidence that my father would wear a loud darkly patterned shirt like mine. Honestly, we did not plan this in advance. Greg Tevis and I were lead architects for the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, and Greg is now the Technology Strategist for the Tivoli Storage product line.
Here is Jack Arnold, fellow subject matter expert who works with me here at the Tucson Executive Briefing Center, sampling the food. We had quite the spread, including egg rolls, meatballs, luncheon meats, chicken strips, and fresh vegetables.
More colleagues from the Tucson Executive Briefing Center, from left to right, Joe Hayward, Lee Olguin, and Shelly Jost. Joe was a subject matter expert on Tape when I first joioned the EBC in 2007, but he has moved back to the Tape development/test team. Lee is our master "Gunny" sargeant to manage all of our briefing schedules. Shelly is our Client Support Manager, and was the one who organized all the food and preparations for this event!
Lastly, here are Brad Johns, myself, and Harley Puckett. Brad was my mentor for my years in Marketing, and has since retired from IBM and now works on his golf game. I would like to thank all of the Tucson EBC staff for pulling off such a great event, and all my coworkers, friends and family for coming out to celebrate this milestone in my career!
In addition to the plaque and keychain, Harley presented me with a book of congratulatory letters. If you would like to send a letter, it's not too late, contact Mysti Wood (email@example.com).
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Tivoli Storage Manager v6.2
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It's Tuesday, and that means more IBM announcements!
I haven't even finished blogging about all the other stuff that got announced last week, and here we are with more announcements. Since IBM's big [Pulse 2010 Conference] is next week, I thought I would cover this week's announcement on Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) v6.2 release. Here are the highlights:
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The TCO of TSM for Backup
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In his Backup Blog, fellow blogger Scott Waterhouse from EMC has yet another post about Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) titled [TSM and the Elephant]. He argues that only the cost of new TSM servers should be considered in any comparison, on the assumption that if you have to deploy another server, you have to attach to it fresh new disk storage, a brand new tape library, and hire an independent group of backup administrators to manage. Of course, that is bull, people use much of existing infrastructure and existing skilled labor pool every time new servers are added, as I tried to point out in my post [TSM Economies of Scale].
However, Scott does suggest that we should look at all the costs, not just the cost of a new server, which we in the industry call Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Here is an excerpt:
Final point: there is actually a really important secondary point here--what is the TCO of your backup infrastructure. In some ways, TSM is one of the most expensive (number of servers and tape drives, for example), relative to other backup applications. However, I think it would be a really interesting exercise to critically examine the TCO of the various backup applications at different scales to evaluate if there is any genuine cost differentiation between them.
Fortunately, I have a recent TCO/ROI analysis for a large customer in the Eastern United States that compares their existing EMC Legato deployment to a new proposed TSM deployment. The assessment was performed by our IBM Tivoli ROI Analyst team, using a tool developed by Alinean. The process compares the TCO of the currently deployed solution (in this case EMC Legato) with the TCO of the proposed replacement solution (in this case IBM TSM) for 55,000 client nodes at expected growth rates over a three year period, and determines the amount of investment, cost savings and other benefits, and return on investment (ROI).
Here are the results:
"A risk adjusted analysis of the proposed solution's impact was conducted and it was projected that implementing the proposed solutions resulted in $16,174,919 of 3 year cumulative benefits. Of these projected benefits, $8,015,692 are direct benefits and $8,159,227 are indirect benefits.
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager uses less bandwidth, fewer disk and tape storage resources than EMC Legato. For even a large deployment of this kind, payback period is only NINE MONTHS. Generally, if you can get a new proposed investment to have less than 24 month payback period you have enough to get both CFO and CIO excited, so this one is a no-brainer.Perhaps this helps explain why TSM enjoys such a larger marketshare than EMC Legato in the backup software marketplace. No doubt Scott might be able to come up with a counter-example, a very small business with fewer than 10 employees where an EMC Legato deployment might be less expensive than a comparable TSM deployment. However, when it comes to scalability, TSM is king. The majority of the Fortune 1000 companies use Tivoli Storage Manager, and IBM uses TSM internally for its own IT, managed storage services, and cloud computing facilities.
Storage Innovation Executive Summit - Part 3
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Continuing my coverage of the [IBM Storage Innovation Executive Summit], that occurred May 9 in New York City, this is my third in a series of blog posts on this event.
During lunch, people were able to take a look at our solutions. Here are Dan Thompson and Brett Cooper striking a pose.
This week, May 15-22, I am in Auckland, New Zealand teaching IBM Storage Top Gun sales class. Next week, I will be in Sydney, Australia.
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October 2011 Announcements - Part 3
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IBM had over a dozen storage-related announcements this week. This is my third and final part in my series to provide a quick overview of the announcements.
Whew! I have already heard from some of my readers to slow down, that this is too much information to deal with all at once. IBM has tried everything from having just a few announcements nearly every Tuesday, to having huge launches every two to three years, and settled in the middle with announcements about four to five times per year.
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New Laptop - Reorganizing My Data Files on Day 4
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Continuing my saga for my [New Laptop], I have gotten all my programs operational, and now it is a good time to re-evaluate how I organize my data. You can read my previous posts on this series: [Day 1], [Day 2], [Day 3].
I started my career at IBM developing mainframe software. The naming convention was simple, you had 44 character dataset names (DSN), which can be divided into qualifiers separated by periods. Each qualifier could be up to 8 characters long. The first qualifier was called the "high level qualifier" (HLQ) and the last one was the "low level qualifier" (LLQ). Standard naming conventions helped with ownership and security (RACF), catalog management, policy-based management (DFSMS), and data format identification. For example:
In the first case, we see that the HLQ is "PROD" for production, the application is PAYROLL and this file holds job control language (JCL). The LLQ often identified the file type. The second can be a version for testing a newer version of this application. The third represents user data, in which case my userid PEARSON would have my own written TEST JCL. I have seen successful naming conventions with 3, 4, 5 and even 6 qualifiers. The full dataset name remains the same, even if it is moved from one disk to another, or migrated to tape.
(We had to help one client who had all their files with single qualifier names, no more than 8 characters long, all in the Master Catalog (root directory). They wanted to implement RACF and DFSMS, and needed help converting all of their file names and related JCL to a 4-qualifer naming convention. It took seven months to make this transformation, but the client was quite pleased with the end result.)
While the mainframe has a restrictive approach to naming files, the operating systems on personal computers provide practically unlimited choices. File systems like NTFS or EXT3 support filenames as long as 254 characters, and pathnames up to 32,000 characters. The problem is that when you move a file from one disk to another, or even from one directory structure to another, the pathname will change. If you rely on the pathname to provide critical information about the meaning or purpose of a file, that could get lost when moving the files around.
I found several websites that offered organization advice. On The Happiness Project blog, Gretchen Rubin [busts 11 myths] about organization. On Zenhabits blog, Leo Babauta offers [18 De-cluttering tips]. Peter Walsh's [Tip No. 185] suggests using nouns to describe each folder. Granted these are about physical objects in your home or office, but some of the concepts can apply to digital objects on your disk drive.
Other websites were specific to organizing digital files on your personal computer. On her Lifehacker blog, Gina Trapani shows her approach to [Organizing "My Documents"]. Chanel Wood offers her [How to organize your computer and still remember where you put everything], based on a simple alphabetic system. Microsoft offers [9 tips to organize files better]. Most of the advice was common sense, but this one, from Peter Walsh's [Tip No. 190], I found amusing:
"Use the computer's sorting function. Put "AAA" (or a space) in front of the names of the most-used folders and "ZZZ" (or a bullet) in front of the least-used ones, so the former float to the top of an alphabetical list and the latter go to the bottom."
Personally, I hate spaces anywhere in directory and file names, and the thought of putting a space at the front of one to make it float to the top is even worse. Rather than resorting to naming folders with AAA or ZZZ, why not just limit the total number of files or directories so they are all visible on the screen. I often sort by date to access my most frequently-accessed or most
Of all the suggestions I found, Peter Walsh's "Use Nouns" seemed to be the most useful. Wikipedia has a fascinating article on [Biological Classification]. Certainly, if all living things can be put into classifications with only seven levels, we should not need more than seven levels of file system directory structure either! So, this is how I decided to organize my files on my new Thinkad T410:
I'll give this new re-organization a try. Since I have to take a fresh backup to Tivoli Storage Manager anyways, now is the best time to re-organize the directory structure and update my dsm.opt options file.
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New DS8700 and other disk announcements
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Well, it's Tuesday again, but this time, today we had our third big storage launch of 2009! A lot got announced today as part of IBM's big "Dynamic Infrastructure" marketing campaign. I will just focus on the disk-related announcements today:
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More 1Q2011 storage-related announcements
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It's Tuesday again, and that means one thing.... IBM Announcements! On the heels of [last week's announcements], IBM announced some additional products of interest to storage administrators.
Next week is [IBM Pulse2011 Conference] in Las Vegas, February 27 to March 2. Sorry, I don't plan to be there this year. It is looking to be a great conference, with fellow inventor Dean Kamen as the keynote speaker. For a blast from the past, read my blog posts from Pulse2008 [Main Tent sessions] and [Breakout sessions].
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Implementing LUKS encryption on your Linux laptop
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In my last blog post [Full Disk Encryption for Your Laptop] explained my decisions relating to Full-Disk Encryption (FDE) for my laptop. Wrapping up my week's theme of Full-Disk Encryption, I thought I would explain the steps involved to make it happen.
Last April, I switched from running Windows and Linux dual-boot, to one with Linux running as the primary operating system, and Windows running as a Linux KVM guest. I have Full Disk Encryption (FDE) implemented using Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS).
Here were the steps involved for encrypting my Thinkpad T410:
If you are one of the lucky 70,000 IBM employees switching from Windows to Linux this year, Welcome!
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ILM and HSM on integrated systems - SONAS v1.1.1
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Continuing this week's discussion on IBM announcements, today I'll cover our integrated systems.
The problem with spreading out these announcements across several days' worth of blog posts is that others beat you to the punch. Fellow blogger Richard Swain (IBM) has his post [Move that File], and TechTarget's Dave Raffo has an article titled [ "IBM SONAS gains policy-driven tiering, gateway to IBM XIV Storage System"].
By combining multiple components into a single "integrated system", IBM can offer a blended disk-and-tape storage solutions. This provides the best of both worlds, high speed access using disk, while providing lower costs and more energy efficiency with tape. According to a study by the Clipper Group, tape can be 23 times less expensive than disk over a 5 year total cost of ownership (TCO).
The two we introduced recently were the [IBM Information Archive] and the Scale-Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS). This week, IBM announced some enhancements as SONAS v1.1.1 release. SONAS is the productized version of IBM's Scale-Out File Services (SoFS), which I discussed in my posts [Area Rugs versus Wall-to-Wall Carpeting] and [More details about IBM's Clustered Scalable NAS].
See the Announcement Letters for the SONAS [hardware] and [software] for more details.
For those who are wondering how this positions against IBM's other NAS solution, the IBM System Storage N series, the rule of thumb is simple. If your capacity needs can be satisfied with a single N series box per location, use that. If not, consider SONAS instead. For those with non-IBM NAS filers that realize now that SONAS is a better approach, IBM offers migration services.
Both the Information Archive and the SONAS can be accessed from z/OS or Linux on System z mainframe, from "IBM i", AIX and Linux on POWER systems, all x86-based operating systems that run on System x servers, as well as any non-IBM server that has a supported NAS client.
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IBM Symposium Melbourne Day 2
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Continuing my coverage of the [IBM System x and System Storage Technical Symposium]. Here is a recap of Day 2:
Of course the big news is that U.S. President Barack Obama is here in Australia, with a stop in Canberra (not far from Melbourne), followed by a stop in Darwin on the north side of this country. This is his first official visit to Australia as president.
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IBM Storwize Product Name Decoder Ring
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IBM had its big launch yesterday of the [IBM Storwize V7000 midrange disk system], and already some have discussed IBM's choice of the name. Fellow blogger Stephen Foskett has an excellent post titled [IBM's Storwize V7000: 100% SVC; 0% Storwize]. On The Register, Chris Mellor writes [IBM's Midrange Storage Blast - Storwize. But Without Compression]. In his latest [Friday Rant], fellow blogger Chuck Hollis (EMC) feels "the new name is cool, if a bit misleading."
In the spirit of the [HP Product Line Decoder Ring] and [Microsoft Codename Tracker], here is your quick IBM product name decoder ring:
If you think this is the first time a company like IBM has pulled shenanigans with product names like this, think again. Here are a few posts that might refresh your memory:
But what about acquisitions? When [IBM acquired Lotus Development Corporation], it kept the "Lotus" brand. New products that fit the "collaboration" function were put under the Lotus brand. I think most people can accept this approach.
But have we ever seen an existing product renamed to an acquired name?
In my post January 2009 post [Congratulations to Ken on your QCC Milestone], I mentioned that my colleague Ken Hannigan worked on an internal project initially called "Workstation Data Save Facility" (WDSF) which was changed to "Data Facility Distributed Storage Manager" (DFDSM), then renamed to "ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager" (ADSM), and finally renamed to the name it has today: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM).
Readers reminded me that [IBM acquired Tivoli Systems, Inc.] in 1996, so TSM could not have been an internally developed product. Ha! Wrong! Let's take a quick history lesson on how this came about:
I participated in five months of painful meetings to figure out what to name our new inte
However, the new IBM Storwize V7000 midrange product had nothing in common with the appliances acquired from Storwize, the company, so to avoid confusion, the latter products were renamed to [IBM Real-time Compression]. Fellow blogger Steven Kenniston, the Storage Alchemist from Storwize fame now part of IBM from the acquisition, gives his perspective on this in his post [Storwize – What is in a Name, Really?]. While I am often critical of the names and terms IBM uses, I have to say this last set of naming decisions makes a lot of sense to me and I support it wholeheartedly.
To learn more about the IBM Storwize V7000 midrange disk system, watch the latest videos on the IBM Virtual Briefing Center (VBC). We have a [short summary version for CFO executives] as well as a [longer version for IT technical professionals].
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IBM October 2012 Tivoli Storage Announcements
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A lot was announced this week, so I decided to break it up into several separate posts. This is part 3 in my 3-part series, focusing on our Tivoli Storage products. To read the rest of the series, see:
To learn more about all of the announcements this week, see the [Storage Announcement Page].
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IBM FlashCopy Manager v2.2
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Well, it feels like Tuesday and you know what that means... "IBM Announcement Day!" Actually, today is Wednesday, but since Monday was Memorial Day holiday here in the USA, my week is day-shifted. Yesterday, IBM announced its latest IBM FlashCopy Manager v2.2 release. Fellow blogger, Del Hoobler (IBM) has also posted something on this out atthe [Tivoli Storage Blog].
IBM FlashCopy Manager replaces two previous products. One was called Tivoli Storage Manager for Copy Services, the other was called Tivoli Storage Manager for Advanced Copy Services. To say people were confused between these two was an understatement, the first was for Windows, and the second was for UNIX and Linux operating systems. The solution? A new product that replaces both of these former products to support Windows, UNIX and Linux! Thus, IBM FlashCopy Manager was born. I introduced this product back in 2009 in my post [New DS8700 and other announcements].
IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager provides what most people with "N series SnapManager envy" are looking for: application-aware point-in-time copies. This product takes advantage of the underlying point-in-time interfaces available on various disk storage systems:
For Windows, IBM FlashCopy Manager can coordinate the backup of Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server. The new version 2.2 adds support for Exchange 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2. This includes the ability to recover an individual mailbox or mail item from an Exchange backup. The data can be recovered directly to an Exchange server, or to a PST file.
For UNIX and Linux, IBM FlashCopy Manager can coordinate the backup of DB2, SAP and Oracle databases. Version 2.2 adds support specific Linux and Solaris operating systems, and provides a new capability for database cloning. Basically, database cloning restores a database under a new name with all the appropriate changes to allow its use for other purposes, like development, test or education training. A new "fcmcli" command line interface allows IBM FlashCopy Manager to be used for custom applications or file systems.
A common misperception is that IBM FlashCopy Manager requires IBM Tivoli Storage Manager backup software to function. That is not true. You have two options:
IBM FlashCopy Manager is an excellent platform to connect application-aware fucntionality with hardware-based copy services.
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Happy QCC Anniversary to Harley Puckett
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Congratulations to my colleague and close friend, Harley Puckett, who celebrated his 25th anniversary of service here at IBM. This is known internally as joining the "Quarter Century Club" or QCC. This is not just a figure of speech, the members of this club hold get-togethers and barbeques throughout the year.
Here is Harley welcoming Ken Hannigan and others he worked with back in Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) software development.
Our manager, Bill Terry, presenting Harley with a plaque.
By the time I got to the cake, it was half gone!
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Digital IBMer in Taipei - Storage Top Gun Sales Training
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Every year, I teach hundreds of sellers how to sell IBM storage products. I have been doing this since the late 1990s, and it is one task that has carried forward from one job to another as I transitioned through various roles from development, to marketing, to consulting.
This week, I am in the city of Taipei [Taipei] to teach Top Gun sales class, part of IBM's [Sales Training] curriculum. This is only my second time here on the island of Taiwan.
As you can see from this photo, Taipei is a large city with just row after row of buildings. The metropolitan area has about seven million people, and I saw lots of construction for more on my ride in from the airport.
The student body consists of IBM Business Partners and field sales reps eager to learn how to become better sellers. Typically, some of the students might have just been hired on, just finished IBM Sales School, a few might have transferred from selling other product lines, while others are established storage sellers looking for a refresher on the latest solutions and technologies.
I am part of the teach team comprised of seven instructors from different countries. Here is what the week entails for me:
These are the solution areas I present most often as a consultant at the IBM Executive Briefing Center in Tucson, so I can provide real-life stories of different client situations to help illustrate my examples.
To learn more about a Top Gun class in your area, see the [Top Gun class schedule].
The weather here in Taipei calls for rain every day! I was able to take this photo on Sunday morning while it was still nice and clear, but later in the afternoon, we had quite the downpour. I am glad I brought my raincoat!
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Day 2 -Tuesday Morning Sessions
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Continuing my coverage of the Data Center 2010 conference, Tuesday morning I attended several sessions. The first was a serious IT discussion with Mazen Rawashdeh, Technology Executive from eBay, and the second was a lighthearted review of the benefits from Cloud Computing from humorist Dave Barry, and the third focused on re-architecting backup strategies.
While the conference is divided into seven major tracks, it quickly becomes obvious that many of these IT datacenter issues overlap, and that approaches and decisions in one area can easily impact other areas.
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#ibmtechu Day 4 IBM Storage University - Storage Free-for-All
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Continuing my coverage of the [IBM System Storage Technical University 2011], I participated in the storage free-for-all, which is a long-time tradition, started at SHARE User Group conference, and carried forward to other IT conferences. The free-for-all is a Q&A Panel of experts to allow anyone to ask any question. These are sometimes called "Birds of a Feather" (BOF). Last year, we had two: one focused on Tivoli Storage software, and the second to cover storage hardware. This year, we had two, one for System x called "Ask the eXperts", and one for System Storage called "Storage Free-for-All". This post covers the latter.
(Disclaimer: Do not shoot the messenger! We had a dozen or more experts on the panel, representing System Storage hardware, Tivoli Storage software, and Storage services. I took notes, trying to capture the essence of the questions, and the answers given by the various IBM experts. I have spelled out acronyms and provided links to relevant materials. The answers from individual IBMers may not reflect the official position of IBM management. Where appropriate, my own commentary will be in italics.)Are there any plans to improve the use of BRMS [Backup Recovery and Media Services for IBM i] with [Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)]?
It should be against the law to connect these two together. IBM has no plans to make any further improvements.When will [IBM BladeCenter S] support 2.5-inch drives?
You are in the wrong session! Go to "Ask the eXperts" session next door!The TSM GUI sucks! Are there any plans to improve it?
Yes, we are aware that products like IBM XIV have raised the bar for what people expect from graphical user interfaces. We have plans to improve the TSM GUI. IBM's new GUI for the SAN Volume Controller and Storwize V7000 has been well-received, and will be used as a template for the GUIs of other storage hardware and software products. The GUI uses the latest HTML5, Dojo widgets and AJAX technologies, eliminating Java dependencies on the client browser.Can we run the TSM Admin GUI from a non-Windows host?
IBM has plans to offer this. Most likely, this will be browser-based, so that any OS with a modern browser can be used.As hard disk drives grow larger in capacity, RAID-5 becomes less viable. What is IBM doing to address this?
IBM is aware of this problem. IBM offers RAID-DP on the IBM N series, RAID-X on the IBM XIV, and RAID-6 on its other disk systems.TPC licensing is outrageous! What is IBM going to do about it?
IBM introduced the [Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition (MRE)] to help address the cost when Small and Medium-sized Businesses managing SVC, Storwize V7000, DS5000 and DS3000 disk systems.What is the adoption rate of IBM Easy Tier?
About 25 percent of DS8000 disk systems have SSD installed. Now that IBM DS8000 Easy Tier supports "any two" tiers, roughly 50 percent of DS8000 now have Easy Tier activated. No idea on how Easy Tier has been adopted on SVC or Storwize V7000.We have an 8-node SVC cluster, should we put 8 SSD drives into a single node-pair, or spread them out?
We recommend putting a separate Solid-State Drive in each SVC node, with RAID-1 between nodes of a node-pair. By separating the SSD across I/O groups, you can reduce node-to-node traffic.How well has SVC 6.2 been adopted?
The inventory call-home data is not yet available. The only SVC hardware model that does not support this level of software was the 2145-4F2 introduced in 2003. Every other model since then can be updated to this level.Will IBM offer 600GB FDE drives for the IBM DS8700?
Currently, IBM offers 300GB and 450GB 15K RPM drives with the Full-Disk Encryption (FDE) capability for the DS8700, and 450GB and 600GB 10K RPM drives with FDE for the IBM DS8800. IBM is working with its disk suppliers to offer FDE on other disk capacities, and on SSD and NL-SAS drives as well, so that all can be used with IBM Easy Tier.Is there a reason for the feature lag between the Easy Tier capabilities of the DS8000, and that of the SVC/Storwize V7000?
We have one team for Easy Tier, so they implement it first on DS8000, then port it over to SVC/Storwize V7000.Does it even make sense to have separate storage tiers, especially when you factor in the cost of SVC and TPC to make it manageable?
It depends! We understand this is a trade-off between cost and complexity. Most data centers have three or more storage tiers already, so products like SVC can help simplify interoperability.Are there best practices for combining SVC with DS8000? Can we share one DS8000 system across two or more SVC clusters?
Yes, you can share one DS8000 across multiple SVC clusters. DS8000 has auto-restripe, so consider having two big extent pools. The queue depth is 3 to 60, so aim to have up to 60 managed disks on your DS8000 assigned to SVC. The more managed disks the better.The IBM System Storage Interopability Center (SSIC) site does not seem to be designed well for SAN Volume Controller.
Yes, we are aware of that. It was designed based on traditional Hardware Compatability Lists (HCL), but storage virtualization presents unique challenges.How does the 24-hour learning period work for IBM Easy Tier? We have batch processing that runs from 2am to 8am on Sundays.
You can have Easy Tier monitor across this batch job window, and turn Easy Tier management between tiers on and off as needed.Now that NetApp has acquired LSI, is the DS3000 still viable?
Yes, IBM has a strong OEM relationship with both NetApp and LSI, and this continues after the acquisition.If have managed disks from a DS8000 multi-rank extent pool assigned to multiple SVC clusters, won't this affect performance?
Yes, possibly. Keep managed disks on seperate extent pools if this is a big concern. A PERL script is available to re-balance SVC striped volumes as needed after these changes.Is the IBM [TPC Reporter] a replacement for IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center?
No, it is software, available at no additional charge, that provides additional reporting to those who have already licensed Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.1 and above. It will be updated as needed when new versions of Productivity Center are released.We are experiencing lots of stability issues with SDD, SDD-PCM and SDD-DSM multipathing drivers. Are these getting the development attention they deserve?
IBM's direction is to shift toward native OS-based multipathing drivers.Is anyone actually thinking of deploying public cloud storage in the near-term?
A few hands in the audience were raised.None of the IBM storage devices seem to have [REST API]. Cloud storage providers are demanding this. What are IBM plans?
IBM plans to offer REST on SONAS. IBM uses SONAS internally for its own cloud storage offerings.If you ask a DB2 specialist, an AIX specialist, and a System Storage specialist, on how to configure System p and System Storage for optimal performance, you get three different answers. Are there any IBMers who are cross-functional that can help?
Yes, for example, Earl Jew is an IBM Field Technical Support Specialist (FTSS) for both System p and Storage, and can help you with that.Both Oracle and Microsoft recommend RAID-10 for their applications.
Don't listen to them. Feel free to use RAID-5, RAID-6 or RAID-X instead.Resizing SVC source volumes forces ongoing FlashCopy or Metro Mirror relatiohships to be stopped. Does IBM plan to address this?
Currently, you have to stop, resize both source and target, then start the relationship again. Consider getting IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication (TPC-R).What ever happened to IBM [Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS)]?
IBM continues to support this for exising clients. For new deployments, IBM offers SONAS and the Information Archive (IA).When will I be able to move SVC volumes between I/O groups?
You can today, but it is disruptive to the operating system. IBM is investigating making this less disruptive.Will XIV ever support the mainframe?
It does already, with support for both Linux and z/VM today. For VSE support, use SVC with XIV. For those with the new zBX extension, XIV storage can be used with all of the POWER and x86-based operating systems supported. IBM has no plans to offer direct FICON attachment for z/OS or z/TPF.Not a question - Kudos to the TSM and ProtecTIER team in supporting native IP-based replication!
Thanks!When will IBM offer POWER-based models of the XIV, SVC and other storage devices?
IBM's decision to use industry-standard x86 technology has proven quite successful. However, IBM re-looks at this decision every so many years. Once again, the last iteration determined that it was not worth doing. A POWER-based model might not beat the price/performance of current x86 models, and maintaining two separate code bases would hinder development of new innovations.We have both System i and System z, what is IBM doing to address the fact that PowerHA and GDPS are different?
IBM TPC-R has a service offering extension to support "IBM i" environments. GDPS plans to support multi-platform environments as well.
This was a great interactive session. I am glad everyone stayed late Thursday evening to participate in this discussion.
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A fracking company has announced plans to explore for shale gas in two new locations.
Cuadrilla Resources said it wanted to explore the full potential of Lancashire's shale gas resources at the two sites in Fylde.
The company said it would apply for planning permission to drill, hydraulically fracture and test the flow of gas from up to four wells on each of the sites.
Separate applications will also be made to install two seismic arrays that would be used to monitor the hydraulic fracturing process.
Cuadrilla pledged an "extensive" programme of public consultation, adding that each of the two exploration sites will have £100,000 made available for the benefit of the local community - up to £400,000 per site if four wells are hydraulically fractured.
Francis Egan, Cuadrilla's chief executive, said: "We've been working hard to assess our site options and have undertaken extensive technical and geological analysis. As a result of this work, we have decided to focus on just two sites at this time.
"This will allow us to reduce the potential impact on the local area during exploration while still gathering the important information we need to determine how much gas could be recovered. We're committed to being a good neighbour and to talking with the community at every stage of the process."
Cuadrilla said it had decided not to apply for permission to carry out hydraulic fracturing at another site in the area - Grange Hill - adding the existing well will be used as the base for a seismic monitor to complement the seismic arrays that would be installed around the proposed new sites.
Friends of the Earth's north west campaigner, Helen Rimmer said: "These plans will be met by stiff opposition from local people rightly concerned about having the UK's first attempted multiple-well fracking operation under their feet.
"Cuadrilla claims to be a good neighbour, but it still hasn't cleared up the mess from the botched fracking operation that caused earth tremors only a couple of miles from one of the proposed sites.
"Despite David Cameron's gung-ho approach, opposition to shale gas is rising - and will grow further as more communities are faced with the fracking threat
"Fracking isn't the answer to our energy problems. Experts say it will do little to tackle climate change - and even Cuadrilla has said it won't cut energy bills.
"Lancashire can be at the heart of the UK's energy future, but it must be based on energy efficiency and renewable power, not more dirty fossil fuels."
Cuadrilla handed out information packs on the proposed drilling to local residents.
Today's announcement follows strong support from the Government for the development of shale gas, despite continued opposition from environmental groups about the impact of the fracking process.
Ministers have argued that shale gas could reduce the UK's reliance on imported gas, as well as creating new jobs.
Cuadrilla believes Lancashire's Bowland basin could have the potential to become a leading shale gas resource.
It is believed to be the first time a shale gas explorer has applied for planning permission for fracking since the lifting in December 2012 of an 18-month ban imposed after Cuadrilla caused two earth tremors while fracking in Lancashire in 2011.
The new sites are at Roseacre Wood, close to the village of Roseacre, and Preston New Road, west of Little Plumpton.
North West Energy Task Force spokesman Rob Green said: "Shale exploration in the North West is a real opportunity for business growth.
"Utilising the area's natural resources and strong engineering traditions will create much needed jobs and investment.
"Businesses are all part of our community and we are keen to see Lancashire leading the responsible development of shale gas as part of the country's energy mix."
John Kersey, chairman of the North West Institute of Directors, said: " We welcome the news that shale exploration has taken another step forward in Lancashire. This is a real boost of confidence for our region's economy.
"Shale gas has great potential to create new jobs, generate economic growth and boost tax revenues for our region's public services. Opponents should know that by blocking shale's development that they are putting thousands of North West jobs and investment at risk.
"It is vital that the North West business community gets behind this announcement and sends a clear message to Government that we are all supportive of Lancashire shale."
Greenpeace UK energy campaigner Lawrence Carter said: "So far Cuadrilla has been forced to abandon plans to frack at all of the sites they have proposed. With public support flagging and strong opposition mounting across the country, there is no reason it will be any different with the two new locations unveiled today.
"In the area surrounding the proposed Lancashire sites there are already over 100 people who have joined our legal block to stop fracking companies trespassing under their homes. Sussex residents who are opposing fracking near their properties have already blazed a trail of legal opposition, and communities like those near Preston could follow suit.
"Instead of planning to strip away long-established homeowners' rights to make way for drillers, the Government should take notice of the growing concerns expressed by millions of people, including many Tory voters, and call it a day on this fracking folly."

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Price Waterhouse Cooper: Only mobile comms can SAVE HUMANITY
Cables will take too long, we'll all be dead
Future of Wireless Speaking at the recent Cambridge Wireless conference Price Waterhouse Cooper's Director of Product Management issued a stark warning - unless governments invest massively in mobile telephony we're all going to starve to death.
Colin Brereton presented his arguments as a keynote at yesterday's Future of Wireless conference in Cambridge, and those arguments lead him to conclude that that private companies, and pension funds, don't have the long-term view needed to prevent our untimely end. Such bodies are only interested in projects which pay dividends within the lifetime of their investors, rather than sustaining the life of their investors' grandchildren, but government can take that generational view and if they invest massively in mobile infrastructure then there might just still be time to save the world.
It's not climate change or global warning that's going to get us this time, or even meteorite strikes or pandemics, but a simple lack of food resulting from our inability to extract sufficient value from the majority of the earth's surface - leaving most of Africa and South America all but fallow as we do. Unless we can make that land productive, goes the argument, we're not going to be able to feed our expanding population, and mobile phones are - apparently - the technology we need to do it.
Not just mobile phones, obviously, but wireless telephony is described as "a key enabler of change" whose ability to spread education and information is necessary to drive the jumps in productivity we need. We're told that every ten per cent increase in mobile penetration increases Gross Domestic Product by .6 per cent, which isn't as radical an increase as that brought on by broadband (as the ITU keeps telling us), but wireless is a lot cheaper and quicker to deploy and speed of change is critical if we're all going to get fed.
The classic example is the farmer who's obliged to sell his crop to the trucker as he doesn't know if another truck will turn up tomorrow offering a better price. Once the farmer has a phone he can negotiate deals, reducing easy profits for the truckers, resulting in fewer truckers and more farmers (and thus more food). Brereton also brought up the example of fishermen using mobiles to check which harbour will offer the best price on the day's catch, not necessary leading to more fish being caught but perhaps cutting out another middleman.
Following the keynote we collared the PwC man for some more examples, and he talked about Nokia's Life Tools which are being used to deliver weather forecasts, and handset accessories for measuring soil humidity: but only a step away from direct advice to food producers is helping them do more with their money. A third of Kenya's GDP is now apparently running through Safaricom's M-Pesa mobile-payment platform which was put together by (Safaricom shareholder) Vodafone and the state-owned bank, enabling 17 million people who'd never had a bank account to interact with the economy usefully.
M-Pasa demonstrates that it's not always money that projects need, government support can build confidence as well as smoothing the regulatory path, but ultimately government money will be needed: along with governments willing to put their trust into multinational companies (such as, cough, PwC) and make the long-term investment. ®
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Introduce yourself!
Posted 17 January 2000 - 02:54
Place of Birth-Amelia Island, FL (Home of the beautiful Amelia Island Concours)
Date of Birth-September, 1981
Current location-Virginia (currently a first year student at college)
Likes-F1, CART, LeMans
Partial to-Little BMW's and Porsches, Monday Night Football, and Watership Down.
Bigwig, you know, from Watership Down.
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Posted 17 January 2000 - 04:11
Dennis David
Yahoo = dennis_a_david
Life is racing, the rest is waiting
Grand Prix History
Posted 17 January 2000 - 05:28
Attending motor sport events in Ireland was virtually impossible, closed road racing, although legal in Ireland (unlike Britain) had ceased for cars for safety reasons by the mid 1960's - although motor cycle road racing still continues (eg the Skerries 100 and the Ulster TT at Dundrod). The only race track in Ireland is Mondello Park in County Kildare and that was too difficult to get to without a car. The only event I could get to was the annual meeting at the Phoenix Park, in Dublin. Imagine racing on the roads in Central Park, New York or Hyde Park, London. That's the"Park". The event still takes place, although it is but a pale shadow of its heyday in the 1970's. I first went in 1975. That year featured, amongst others, Formula Ford 1600's, pre-war historics, modified saloons and MG Midgets. The feature race was for Formula Atlantics. To give you an idea of the quality of the participants, the Formula Atlantic race featured Gunnar Nilsson and Tony Brise and the Formula Ford race featured Derek Daly (later of Tyrell and Williams fame) and a certain Mr Edward Jordan! I attended the Phoenix Park races for the next ten years. Highlights included Derek Daly demonstrating the Ensign F1 in 1978 - it was the first time I'd seen a Formula 1 car in action - boy was I impressed - and a "ding-dong" race between Stirling Moss (in a Chevron B8) and Richard Attwood (in a Porsche 917) in 1982. Moss won, much to the delight of the crowd.
I follow all the Grand Orix races on TV (I've been taping the highlight programmes since 1983). Now that I have Europsort I can also follow CART, GT, ALM and even NASCAR. I must admit, NASCAR I find hard to get worked up about. Sorry Joe Fan - I'm sure its a culture thing.
I've gone to one GP, the 1995 race at San Marino. It was a great experience, especially to be surrounded by the "Tifosi" on their home turf. However, I did feel that we were too removed from the action which to me was a shame. Thats the way it is in modern Firmula 1, unfortunately. I flatly refuse to go to the British GP at Silverstone. I consider £100 for a basic entrance ticket to be exhorbitant. I get my motor sport fix nowadays by going to Lord March's two historic events at Goodwood, The Festival of Speed and the Circuit Revival. Here you can mingle with the drivers and literally touch the cars. I've even managed to get some autographs, John Surtees', Richard Attwood's - he told me he let Moss win - and Jackie Ickx's. The reconstrution of the old circuit is almost magical.
Every year I drive down to Goodwood (only an hour from where I live) in my Caterham 7. See how badly I've been smitten, I even have to drive a car with a racing pedigree. Its a wonderful drive over sweeping English "A" roads. In Spring I'm planning to have the 7 modified so that I can take part in Lotus 7 Club track days. I'll finally get the chance to drive around some classic British circuits.
Roll on Melbourne.
Posted 17 January 2000 - 10:14
Dennis David
Yahoo = dennis_a_david
Life is racing, the rest is waiting
Grand Prix History
Posted 17 January 2000 - 23:29
I have been obsessed with F1 for as long as I can remember, ever since my dad used to tell me stories about a brilliant racing driver by the name of Gilles Villeneuve. I am particularly interested in the history of the sport and would like to be a motor racing historian.
I am also a drum teacher and have been playing for 8 years. I am a big football fan as well (soccer in America). I support my local teams, Dunfermline Athletic (The Pars) and Cowdenbeath (The Blue Brazil). My favourite bands are Counting Crows, Eagles, Del Amitri, Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith.
Posted 18 January 2000 - 08:08
Those Park circuits are really good, nearly as good as open road circuits and streets (literally) ahead of artificial circuits, in the main.
Albert Park, before it became what it is now (apparently known in this company as Melbourne) was a great course with magnificent sweepers by the lake etc. Its emaciation was not as bad as it could have been, fortunately.
Bathurst, or Mount Panorama, comes between the two, being public road that was built with a view to being closed for racing. Hence the fantastic esses and the glorious sweepers round the top of the mountain.
Still, Lobethal was better, and Longford almost as good.
Albert Park, by the way, was the scene of the fastest Aust. Grand Prix (1956, Moss,250F, at around 97mph) until Longford 1965 (McLaren, 2.5 Cooper, 114.7mph), having eclipsed the Lobethal record from 1939 (Saywell, Alfa P3, 83.9mph for fastest race time, it was a handicap and the race was won by Tomlinson,MG TA, at 79.52 mph). The Longford record remained until the new Albert Park race in 1996.
Posted 19 January 2000 - 03:58
Somehow I didn't become a racing driver, but ended up in advertising, being a copy writer and creative director at an agency in Amsterdam. I compensate by driving karts occasionally, and driving tracks like Zandvoort, Spa, the Ring, on public days. Of course, I still want to be a racing driver which is where computer sims come in. I'm absolutely addicted to Grand Prix Legends. The online gameplay adds yet another dimension, not to mention the adrenaline. It looks like I'm becoming a racing driver after all...
Posted 19 January 2000 - 09:02
Too right about park circuits. They are also VERY dangerous - even today. As I said in my intro, I went to the Phoenix Park last August and whilst not as classy as of yore, there were some inprovements - like toilets, for instance. Total length of Armco on the track was about thirty feet (opposite the paddock exit). The obstacles, of which there are many (eg. trees, milestones, gas lamp standards, park benches - even a pond!!!) are surrounded by straw Bales. The crowd are "protected" by a barrier nade from scaffold poles which also serve as an anchor point for the PA system. The event is totally FREE as the bye-laws of the park do not allow the public to be charged for any event staged within its boundaries.The timetable in the programme should only be taken as a rough guide to the running of the various races as in the end, whoever is ready to go is allowed out on the circuit. It is Ireland after all. Last year none of the Irish national championships held a round at the Park meeting, which was a pity. The Formula Fords(which are the biggest single seat category in Ireland) didn't even turn up! What a change from the old days when the everone wanted to win in the Park. It had the same prestige in Ireland in the 1970's that the Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch once had in Britain.
Posted 19 January 2000 - 11:44
I'm known as Kevin Radford to the rest of the world. The name Rad was my nickname in the late 80's. I was born in Memphis Tn. in '69. That makes me 30 on the dot.
I have lived in many various locations throughout the South.
Places like Milan,Tn. Johnson City, Tn. (I miss the mountains there)Nashville, Tn. Lebanon, Tn. Savannah, Ga. Atlanta, Ga. just to name most of them.
I now live on the Atlantic in Jacksonville(Jax) Beach.
Currently, I am an advertising/fashion photographer. I work for a major stock photography company as their Director of Photography. I also shoot as much freelance as my representative can get for me. I plan to start shooting racing events starting with a job I picked up for the upcoming Rolex24 in Daytona. I love all genres of photography.
I became a F1 fan at the early age of seven. The names Andretti, Stewart, Hunt, and Lauda where household names in my little TN. house because of my older brother. He got me hooked, and we plan on going to Indy together. I grew up watching the battles of Prost, Mansell, Piquet, and of course Senna. It was quite hard to get a broadcast (as it is now) but I had 'Autoweek' to keep me caught up on the sport. The internet has opened up so many more doors of information for F1 that I hardly read the rags anymore.
Besides F1, I enjoy US football (Vols, Cowboys, Jaguars, Falcons, and Titans)
Baseball: The Braves
When I was a teenager I had a horrible car wreck that pretty much ended my athletic goals. I was a pretty damn good soccer player with scholorship potential. I still enjoy kicking the ball around however.
I'm getting into SCCA racing with an old beater Rabbit. I plan to work on it and race it as a hobby.
In conclusion, I think that the BB's here at Atlas are the best on the web, and I hope that I can provide some interesting insight during the upcoming season to make them even better. Thanks!
Posted 19 January 2000 - 11:47
I'd love to go there one year but I guess it must have been fantastic watching the Formula Atlantic cars in the 1970's or the Voiturette racing in the 1930's.
In 1995 Jean-Christophe Boullion demonstrated a Williams FW16 at the circuit and reached 163mph on the main straight!
He must be a VERY brave man.
Posted 21 January 2000 - 07:02
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Posted 22 January 2000 - 06:39
Thanks for your thoughts on the Phoenix Park races. It is still quite a special place even with the less spectacular cars. What cable channel did you watch the racing on? Was it one of the Sky Sports channels? As I was in Ireland for that weekend I watched edited highlights on RTE television.What struck me was how NARROW the track is - someting I'd never really appreciated before. I've even driven the circuit(s) and not realised their narrowness.There is barely room for two Formula V's side by side. Two distinct tracks have been used over the years. The original 2.6 mile "Hawthorn Circuit" and the 1.75 "Oldtown Circuit". It is the shorter one they are using at the moment. In fact, the Hawthorn Circuit was last used in 1982. The only section of track common to both circuits is the main straight which is, in fact, part of the main road through the park. They now use the straight in the opposite direction, turning right down towrds an area known as the Furry Glen. The old circuit headed down the straight towards Castleknock Gate but turning sharp right before reaching the gate at Mountjoy Corner. Watching MG Midgets heading en masse for Mountjoy was always amusing, loads of tyre smoke and the odd overshooter heading towards Castlenock. In 1975 Mountjoy witnessed a multiple pile up in the Atlantic race with some cars ending up upside down. One year Tommy Byrne sideswiped one of the gas lamps at Mountjoy in a Formula Ford and split the car in half, luckily with no injury to himself. The road then continued in a long arc past Ashtown Gate towrds a corner called Ratra. Ratra used to feature a triangular loop extension but this was removed later. A chicane, made of sandbags, was also installed on the approach to Ratra. From Ratra the cars headed to Monument Corner before turning right back onto the main straight. I was interested to here that Christophe Bouillion clocked 163 mph on the current circuit. When Derek Daly demonstrated the Ensign in 1978 he reckoned he was touching 180mph on the Ashtown Gate arc. He also said that he couldn't read his instruments due to the terrible vibrations caused by the extremely bumpy road surface. Its still as bumpy today, not to mention that the road is also "crowned" in the centre. If I had a scanner I'd include a map of the two circuits and some pictures from my programmes. I have all the programmes from 1975 to 1985 plus of course 1999.
Posted 22 January 2000 - 08:40
I was watching the racing from the Park on the Irish station 'Tara Television'. They showed the RTE transmission of the event, covering it on both Saturday and Sunday. In September they also showed the Leinster Trophy live.
I remember seeing pictures of Niki Potterton in 1994 cartwheeling his FF1600 car through the air at the first corner, narrowly missing the top of a street lamp...
Posted 23 January 2000 - 15:33
Posted 23 January 2000 - 15:39
Dennis David
Yahoo = dennis_a_david
Life is racing, the rest is waiting
Grand Prix History
Posted 24 January 2000 - 02:28
My real name is Ian McKean. (Can anyone tell me why so many of you use pseudonyms? I don't recall even being offered the option of having a pseudonym when I registered)
I found the nostalgia board around two months ago and read nearly everything that first weekend. Also posted a few comments about Monzanapolis etc. Just what I like...
I was born in 1947 and was late to start talking. My parents were beginning to worry that I was simple, but when they took me to Harrods and bought my first pedal car I came up with my first sentence, "Put my car in there", pointing at the back of the shooting brake. So I was mad on cars and racing from the earliest days.
I think the first race my father took me to was at Silverstone but all I don't remember much of it. I do remember from about 1955 when we used to go to the Easter Monday meetings at Goodwood and the Nine Hour sports car races. I was an Aston Martin supporter in those days and enjoyed sports cars, GT cars and saloons as well as F1 and F2. I also went to meetings at Oulton Park and Aintree as a boy.
One of the great things about racing in those days was having non-championship F1 races and I saw lots of F1 racing before I saw my first GP, which must have been at Silverstone in 1960. Graham Hill drove a fantastic race that day but spun off near the end (as I mentioned in a posting recently about Hill). The last non-Championship F1 race I saw was when Rosberg had his first F1 win in the Theodore at a wet Silverstone meeting. I can't remember the year off-hand, but it must have been about 1977.
Sent off to boarding school at an early age, I used to look forward to the weekly fix from Autosport or Motoring News. In the 50's, John Bolster used to test some exciting sports cars for Autosport such as the Aston DB3S and the Cooper Jaguar raced by Brig. Michael Head. Some weeks after arriving at Wellington College as a 13 year old new boy in 1960 I was waiting to phone my fond mama and got talking with the other boy waiting for the phone kiosk. I was flabbergasted to discover it was Michael Head's son Patrick. (Patrick saw his chance and asked me to lend him 6p for the phone. I got it back three years later).
James Hunt was another contemporary at Wellington, but I did not know him to talk to and I am not sure if he was an enthusiast at this age. I don't think Patrick knew him either.
The grounds at Wellington are bisected by a dead straight road known as "the Kilometre", from which another avenue led up to the main school building. Patrick's father was well-known to the people that mattered at Jaguar and had been asked to comment on the prototype E Type. He had one of the first 7 E Types built and apparently Brigadier Head achieved 120 mph on the Kilometre when returning young Patrick to school after an exeat. I think the school had a speed limit of 20.
Another time I saw the Lumsden/Sargent Lightweight E Type parked outside College. I think there were only 2 built with this fastback body, the other raced by the Germans Lindner/Nocker. So this was pretty exciting for a schoolboy. I never found out what it was doing there, but assume that one of them (Lumsden or Sergeant) was addressing the school motor club.
After school I went to Birmingham University, as did Patrick, after a brief interlude in the Royal Navy. The Heads had been in the Army for about 4 centuries but Patrick's maternal grandfather had been an Admiral so the RN was just about OK. Patrick wanted to design racing cars but his father wanted him to get a proper job. Patrick gave in but rationalised the decision by considering the excellent Naval engineering college (I think it was called Manenden) where he would study after Dartmouth (and the Lotus Super Seven his dad promised him). But after a term he decided it wasn't for him (but he told some great stories) and decided to buy himself out. So the Super 7 went (actually I am not sure if it ever arrived - I never saw it).
At Birmingham, Patrick and I fell in with an extraordinary and multi-talented individual called Andy Dawson who had or claimed to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of all things and people in motor sport. For months Pat and I used to discuss whether Andy's stories had any substance. But so often the most outrageous stories turned out to be true. One of Andy's most irritating tricks was talking about his friend "Paddy" (Hopkirk that is). Patrick and I could never decide if he was all mouth or not. At Wellington it was not the done thing to brag or exaggerate. One day the three of us went to the Racing Car Show and Andy (of course) knew a side entrance. Who should be coming out of the side entrance as we were coming in but Paddy and Timo Makinen. "Hello Paddy" said Andy. Hopkirk barely noticed Andy, but to be fair, Hopkirk and Makinen were both the worse for wear - barely able to stand up, in fact.
It was Andy who got Patrick and me interested in rallies. Patrick and I had been sharing a gearbox kart but had got disillusioned with it. We went testing one day but ended up having more fun taking Pat's Morris Minor 1000 round the kart track. The three of us spent a lot of time together when we should have been working and all failed our first year exams.
Andy eventually proved his credentials; he won or nearly one the Motoring News Christmas quiz one year (which was fiendishly difficult because you had to know racing and rallying ). He was a very fast and safe driver, an excellent engineer and test driver, and a brilliant navigator. He came 4th on the RAC Rally one year in an Escort and won a couple of minor Internationals driving a Lancia Stratos. He ran and drove for Nissan Team Europe for a number of years. With a bit more diplomacy he could have been where Dave Richards is now.
After University I rallied for some years as and when money allowed, driving Minis, Triumph Dolomite Sprint, Triumph 2.5, MGB V8 but mainly Saab 96V4. I eventually got married and became a normal person apart from watching motorsport on the "box". I now have a wife and two boys, neither interested in motor sport. I get my competitive fix from playing squash and occasionally tennis, and occasionally playing GP2 (or indoor karting but I find them too underpowered to be fun for long). I have little hope of making my comeback but it may happen. I have a Modsports TVR 3-litre awaiting restoration and may get that essential missing part, a round tuit, one day.
Ian McKean
Posted 24 January 2000 - 03:01
Dennis David
Yahoo = dennis_a_david
Life is racing, the rest is waiting
Grand Prix History
Posted 24 January 2000 - 05:21
Canberra's a great place, isn't it? Before you leave take yourself up to Mt Ainslie and watch a sunset, taking in the reflections across the lake and the city lights coming on.
And in Tasmania you must take time out to lament the loss of Longford. The locals will show you where the circuit was, and there's a display at the pub with some (often superficial) information. Take more notice of the pictures would probably be good advice.
Then just imagine the greatest race there - 1965, Clark, two Hills, Brabham and McLaren, at it for the whole 120 miles, with Phil Hill the spoiler keeping Brabham from winning his fourth Aust Grand Prix.
Posted 24 January 2000 - 11:20
Dennis David
Yahoo = dennis_a_david
Life is racing, the rest is waiting
Grand Prix History
Posted 24 January 2000 - 18:15
Posted 27 January 2000 - 22:34
I regularly read this BB but rarely post, but it's a quiet week here for once, so why not?
I'm Pete from Surrey in Britain. I see many of the others are from the Land of the Free, so I am making up the numbers from the Land of the Expensive (injoke for fellow Brits). I'm old enough to know better (50) and have been into motorsport since my teens. I have been a rally co-driver for much of that time and am still a keen rally fanatic. I have been active in motor clubs for nearly 30 years.
I also love racing - the first big event I attended was the BOAC500 sports car race at Brands Hatch in 1967, sadly on the day that Jim Clark died at Hockenheim. That day started a life long enthusiasm for Porsche as I watched their 2 litre cars fighting the big Fords and Ferraris. My first GP was Monaco 1970 - I also went to the Canadian GP in 1974 at Mosport, plus many British GPs (often with track or press passes thansk to kind friends). Nowadays, I am content to watch on TV though, it is all too much hassle - old age creeping in I fear!
Favourite drivers were Graham Hill, Gilles Villeneuve, Carlos Reutteman and nowadays the perennially unlucky but ever cheerful Johnny Herbert (a real sportsman, in the mould of the good old days). I also like Alex Zanardi (I thoroughly enjoy following CART racing as well - every bit as good as F1, I reckon) and cannot understand Willimas decision at all - but then I have never been a fan of that over rated set-up.
As for BRG, in case you can't figure it out, it's British Racing Green.
best wishes to all, and keep up the free and frank exchange of views in this forum.
Posted 28 January 2000 - 05:43
And y'all just keep making it better and better and better.... HOOOAH!!
Yr fthfl & hmbl srvnt,
Don Capps
Semper Gumbi: If this was easy, we'd have the solution already…
Posted 28 January 2000 - 13:19
The nostalgia column is a boon for any motorsport fan. the Atlas site is simply the best F1 site and the BB in general, well any site that gets post from people like Don Capps, Dennis David, Pit Babe, Jay way, Psychoman, Red Fever, Frans, etc. etc. etc. has got to be good for you. To quote an old favourite that some Oz fans may recognise
"Atlas F1, Looks Good, Feels Good, Is Good"
Posted 28 January 2000 - 19:23
I have always lived in the Hunter Valley area of NSW Australia. Have been a dedicated motorsports fan for as far back as my memory takes me and particularly love F1, Rally and Aussie V8s, but watch almost anything involving speed and wheels. I have been to three Australian GPs and eagerly awaiting my fourth - this year. It is also my dream to get to some O/seas races one day, but being a seperated mum of twin boys and on a very strict budget I can only dream at the moment.
I love reading this forum, but haven't contributed so far - I'm too busy being in awe of the wealth of knowledge the rest of you hold and share.
Posted 28 January 2000 - 23:46
Dennis David
Yahoo = dennis_a_david
Life is racing, the rest is waiting
Grand Prix History
Posted 30 January 2000 - 01:43
What really triggered my interest for racing was our family's move to Monaco in the late 70's. All of the sudden, I found myself in the heart of things! Every year I would go watch the Grand-Prix at my dad's office, from which I had a great view on the harbour part of the track in general, and on the Ste-Dévote curve in particular. In 1984, I got offered to see the cars from even closer, and became a first-aid worker on the track. That's how I got to witness the great 1984 battle, getting soaked under the pouring rain at the entrance of the swimming pool. In 1990, I started working for the Automobile Club de Monaco in the press room, and ended up a few years later writing the official press releases, before the FIA got control of that too. That's how I got to translate from English to French the new F1 regulations to got introduced in 1994 following Senna's accident two weeks earlier.
Monaco was also a great place on a more human level. Most drivers are resident there, and it's not unusual to wait in line behind one at the supermarket or at the movie theater. Furthermore, I went to school with two guys who later joined the F1 circus, with considerable success for one of them.
Right now, I live in Paris where I held my last job, but in the last ten years I have spent time in the USA, Spain, and the Netherlands. And I still go back regularly to the only place I will ever call my home: Monaco.
Posted 02 February 2000 - 15:55
The above is my real name, born and bought up in Kent, England - useful if only for proximity to Brands hatch and, later, Lydden.
I'm 51 and currently living/working in Dubai.
Have been interested in motorsports since mid-50's, raced motorcycles for a year in 1969. From 1985 - 1991 spent most weekends during the season engaged in timekeeping at most of the UK circuits - both RAC and ACU events. Follow most types of motorsport, big follower of the clubbies and my absolute favourite event used to be the FF Festival - I refused to timekeep those weekends and spent the entire time on South Bank.....
Still have three motorcycles (two stored in Kent, one here in Dubai) and my wife tells me I'll be OK when I grow up.......
Posted 02 February 2000 - 17:51
My name is Kurt, I live in Bellingham Washington, USA. I am a scrimshaw artist. A what you say? Well here: http://fineartscrimshaw.com
I've been a race fan since my best friend's older brother took us to the '67 Laguna Seca Can-Am race. That was all I needed to see (and hear!). I got into F1 reading race reports in R&T mostly first by HNMIII, and then Rob Walker. My dad was a kart racer,so I got introduced to the sport in a personal way. Met great people, had a ball, learned about wrenching to win. Love this forum, I've learned alot reading through the posts. Thanks to everyone who makes it all happen!
Posted 07 February 2000 - 10:07
Posted 07 February 2000 - 12:15
Racing is in my blood, some of them say, and I can't reject the impression it's in mine too. Have been an F1-nut since half season 1984, and when the next season the legendary John Player Special-Lotus became one with the even more legendary Senna, I was hooked forever.
Over the years I have grown deep respect for the abilities of F1 and WC Rally drivers and their sometimes truly exceptional achievements.
Other series of interest:
Bike racing, GP-series as well as SBK.
The minor Formulas, F3000, F3 and the likes.
CART, sportscars, BTCC, DTM, Trophee Andros.
Classic car restoring a hobby, an '73 02 Touring currently under reconstruction.
Road racing inevitable; keep them twisty roads coming; currently performing rubber-arts in an Alfa Romeo 155.
Tried to get my biking to the same level on my wannabe supermotard Yamaha DR200, but keeping my aspirations low for my own safety.
Considering a Berger interview, in which he stated, today's F1-drivers where little boys compared to the giants who raced the explosive power of the turbo's and in which he immediately corrected himself that Jacky Stewart's opinion would be the same about the turbo-boys in their relatively safe carbon-fibre monocoques compared to the real heroes in his days in their zero-tolerance aluminium rockets, I got fascinated by the history of Grand Prix racing.
Knowledge without a doubt a fraction of the true historians around here, I am glad to be in the center of the nostalgia conversations.
Trully thankfull for the great job Mattijs Diepraam and Felix Muelas are performing at 8W, nice to meet you here.
Kind regards to Don Capps and Dennis David for their publications, for sharing a wealth of historical GP-facts and for all those little details that make the past come alive.
Ecurie Historique d'Avantgarde
The Edge ... where the masses spectate, a chosen few compete and only one defines!
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Posted 10 February 2000 - 23:38
Dennis David
Yahoo = dennis_a_david
Life is racing, the rest is waiting
Grand Prix History
Posted 11 February 2000 - 00:37
I'm Mark Alan Jones, 27, of Brisbane, Australia.
One of my current gods - Don Capps, has a couple of times pointed out I should drop by here. Finally when a link was posted I clicked in.
If the names familiar to Atlas regulars, I do a column called the F1 FAQ, which was also my first break into serious writing, I can't thank Bira enough for asking me. Only a few months later a connection was made with Motorsport News, and now I'm a freelance writer. For someone who was just a serios fan back in January last year it's been a helluva ride. I've coverred V8Supercars, Super Touring, GT-Production, Formula Holden, Formula Ford, Porsche Cup, Commodore Cup, HQ Holdens, Formula Vee and Australian Rally Cars at Lakeside, Queensland Raceway, Imbul State Forrest and last November realised a dream covering the very race I'd spent most of my life idolising. And now there is stuff beyond any dream that may yet happen too.
By professional I'm a subdivions design / civil enginerring drafter, which served for quite a few years to be for the hobby. I first bit the motorsport bug in 1977, yeah crucnh the numbers, aged 5, when I first glimpsed a 6 kilometer piece of tarmac which owns my heart and soul like nothing else and no-one else has ever had. On the TV, was a fabled race and a fabled racetrack. Today it's known as the Mountain, one of the three best racing circuits in the world, Mount Panorama, Bathurst.
The very young Jonesy shut up and watched spell-bound as Allan Moffat and Colin Bond barrelled down Conrod Straight the last time in the 1977 Bathurst 1000. The track fascinated me and most of the 22 years since then have been spent gathering every scrap of information about the legendary track. That thirst spilled over into motorsport as a whole. I've stood atop the Mountain at McPhillamy Park watching all manner of cars race by, I was almost squashed by Steve Winwood's XR8 Falcon in the bush at Imbul during Rally Queensland, driven the Queenstown stage of the Targa Tasmania and marvelled how anyone could race that, stood under the Viaduct at Longford mentally picturing Brabham, McLaren and the Tasman Cup hurtling Formula One cars past the now much faded Shell sign, I remember Surfers Paradise raceway before there was Indycars, and stood on Pole Position at Adelaide Grand Prix.
After 6 months as a photographer I decided I'd never have the money to upgrade to serious equipment and started writing "The Road to Bathurst" e-mail newsletter which inturn led to numerous web projects, AMIB, Super Touring Image Archive, and most recently VESRIX.
I'm sitting here in what has effectively become my office surrounded by books and videotapes and realising after many years of not really enjoying life, now I'm loving life like never before and there's a few people here abouts that have had a hand in that. It's truly great to be alive.
Posted 11 February 2000 - 01:19
Well, I'v been around here for quite a long time, even before the BB shut down some time last year. As you might already have guessed my name is Zoe (the rest of my name is left to your fantasy). I am living and working in Germany since 1964, which seems to classify me as a "gorl" I am a bit of a workoholic, single and loving it.
I got interested in F1 and motor sports basically in the early 80ies by a friend of mine whom I admit I have nearly forgotten. I was gawking at those F1 posters and calendars as early as the 70ies (started young, yes), but due to non-existent TV at home I didn't get to see my first motor race (on TV) before the eighties. This time period is also one of my favourites. I fondly remember Keke Rosberg, Stefan Bellof (one of the greatest talents I am convinced!), the duels between Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet and all that stuff.
I have never been to a real F1 race for a variety of reasons, but I don't really miss it.
Professionally I am working as a project manager in a large aerospace company.
My private interest in cars is focused on hearses, which is rather unusual around here but interesting and fascinating. In my profile you'll find a link to my hearse page in case you are interested.
AtlasF1 wise I pop over as often as I can manage, usually as a background task while waiting for a printer or during my afternoon coffee break; unfortunately our IP connection is pretty lousy and I am also quite busy, so I often come too late in a thread to actively participate. Nevetheless I enjoy all those funny discussions (there are some real clowns around), and the technical and nostalgia forums (fori?) are usually highly interesting. I have an Autosport subscription since 1990, but I am thinking of cancelling it since I get all that information here as well. The only problem is that I can't read AtlasF1 in the bathtub as I love to do with my Autosport.
Posted 11 February 2000 - 12:30
John Nelson
Posted 11 February 2000 - 17:15
Just a note or two on my current activity in case it's of interest. My book on the disposition of the VW car and factory after the war (not much racing in it) will be published by Bentley in early March. I'll be in Detroit from 6 to 10 March at the SAE Congress to help promote it. On 15 May my new book on Dan Gurney will be published by Haynes, in series with Moss, Stewart and Fangio. As you know my next project in this series is Alberto Ascari, to be published in October. Also coming out in May from Sutton is 'Classic Grand Prix Cars', about the great front-engined racers from 1906 to 1960 -- just to remind people that there was life before the world championship started in 1950. Sutton is doing a nice job on it and I hope people will like it. I'm just finishing work on a book Haynes will publish this autumn called 'Racing Engines'. It covers 50 engines from the 1913 16-valve Peugeot to the 1994 Mercedes 500I that won Indy. This summer Iconografix will publish the first two books in what we hope will grow into a Ludvigsen Library series, using photos from our archive. One is '1950s Indy Cars' and the other is 'Exotic Corvette Prototypes'.
Just to add to the fun, I have agreed to update my Posche book, 'Excellence was Expected', and need to complete that work by the end of the year. I have already made one research trip to Porsche that was very fruitful so I hope to have some new stories to tell.
So that's my story at the moment. I still have to look ahead, so if anyone has an idea for a book that they think should be written I would be happy to hear about it!
Very best to all F.1 fans throughout the world!
Oh, and I forgot to mention that you can see what else I'm up to at www.ludvigsen.com.
Karl Ludvigsen
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Posted 11 February 2000 - 08:36
Who would make that one up??
I became an autoracing fan before racecars had "wings", but after most had gone to rear engines.. So, I came into all this madness at a very interesting time. My fond memories include racing my Formula Vee, the redoubtable DG83, with my good fiend ZippyD, (who may prefer to remain nameless), and
all those great weekends at the Glen, the real home of the US Grand Prix. There is still nothing quite like a chilly October day
at the Glen to stir the old racing blood.
I can smell the camp fires and the beer now!!
One of my hobbies, or is it an obsession?, is
the game "Grand Prix Legends". If you enjoyed this period of racing, you can't help but be hooked and we have quite the underground movement going.
Favorite movies, "Grand Prix", "Le Mans"
need I say more??
Posted 11 February 2000 - 23:38
I became interested in F1 a very very very very long time ago because of my good old old old old old friend Keir. We go back to the Rob Walker era of Delahays(SIC)at Brookalnds and Hoover in the white house. Just kidding again.
My first taste of F1 happened in the great year of 1971.(SEX, DRUGS and ROCK AND ROLL) Keir and I hitch hiked the 300 plus miles from Bayonne NJ(God's country) to Watkins Glen, which as Keir states is the true home of the US GP. The trek to the Glen was memorable; Neo-Nazis, willing coeds, joints the size of you forearm, a muscle car driven by rich cowboy and his very hot babe. Hubba Hubba!!
The Glen itself was beyond my wildest dreams. Fast exotic cars, beautiful people, the BOG, hippies everywhere(the Glen was known as Woodstock on wheels back then) great music. A true communal atmosphere. Needles to say Keir and I made the annual pilgrimage each October with glee and gusto.(and other substances both legal and illegal)
I was fortunate enough to help Keir with his life long dream of actually racing. I believe I'm the 'G' in DG83 of DG RACING fame. We both had allot of fun getting that Vee competitive. It's a shame Keir never got to drive anything more competitive as he did amazing things with an old, uderfinanced, reasonably reliable("Well it wasn't doing it in practice!!") He is a true friend who I will cherish 'till the end.
I would like to play GPL as it looks like a great game. However I work with PCs all day and therefor do not own one. 8 hours a day around them is enough for me.
This forum is a great place for enthusiasts of all ages to gather. Perhaps we should all get together and go to the Glen in October and rent out the track and drive around. Either that or just camp on the grounds, eat horrible things for breakfast, yell rude things at any women as they pass, hear the ghosts of F1 cars and think of what was and what might have been.
"Pete, Do you sometimes get tired? Lately I have been getting tired. Very tired."
Posted 12 February 2000 - 02:24
"My kingdom,for a time machine"
Yes, of course, you are The "G" .
Great days they all were.
That Glen idea has some merit, I think it's high time that we took the Glen back from those NASCAR pirates and showed them what real race cars sound like.
Now, before anyone gets the wrong idea, I have nothing against NASCAR. Racing is racing, but the Glen to me is holy ground and should be preserved.
I can hear Amon's Matra V12 now!! Can't you?
"I Was Born Ready"
Posted 12 February 2000 - 02:25
"My kingdom,for a time machine"
Yes, of course, you are The "G" .
Great days they all were.
That Glen idea has some merit, I think it's high time that we took the Glen back from those NASCAR pirates and showed them what real race cars sound like.
Now, before anyone gets the wrong idea, I have nothing against NASCAR. Racing is racing, but the Glen to me is holy ground and should be preserved.
I can hear Amon's Matra V12 now!! Can't you?
"I Was Born Ready"
Posted 12 February 2000 - 04:52
I'm not so impressed by the shouting of nasty things to passing ladies, however, but I know this happens at Bathurst too. But it didn't so much when there were real racing cars there. And it never would have happened at Lobethal, for that was in a more gentle time, when spectators wore ties.
I'm going to start a topic about hitch-hiking (and other various) trips to major races. Now that was a great time of life!
Keir and ZippyD are both welcome to email me on more personal matters at any time - firstname.lastname@example.com
Posted 12 February 2000 - 09:53
Dennis David
Yahoo = dennis_a_david
Life is racing, the rest is waiting
Grand Prix History
Posted 12 February 2000 - 09:57
Dennis David
Yahoo = dennis_a_david
Life is racing, the rest is waiting
Grand Prix History
Posted 13 February 2000 - 01:24
But of course the good times don't last. seat. Shortly before my 16th birthday(driver's license age here in Toronto), after spending years dreaming about graduating from the back seat to the driver's seat, my father sold the damn car. So I had to settle for TV and visits to Mosport. I still get up there some times. I hope Panoz will dump a load of cash into the track so we can see more great racing there. I have gone to most Toronto Indy's and have been to the Montreal GP once
I follow F1, Champcars and the associated lower formulas, and WRC. And when I can't watch those, well I will watch almost any racing for a while.
I have been in the restaurant business most of my career, but now spend most of my time working in marketing management of wine, beer, and spirits.
Posted 21 February 2000 - 10:09
I grew up in rural northern California, surrounded by dragstrips, dirt tracks and motocross, and everything was fine until 1963, when I was listening to the Indy 500 on the radio with my father (a family ritual) and began to wonder: just what is a Lotus and who is Jim Clark? By the end of 1964 I'd well and truly found out and I've been hopelessly obsessed ever since.
Let's see: I have fond memories of the Ford/Ferrari battles at Le Mans, I think the 1.5 liter GP cars were amazingly beautiful (although I tend to think the most beautiful race car is always the fastest one from the most recent season); I saw the Times Grand Prix at Riverside, won by McLaren in his Elva/Chevy and dominated, spiritually at least, by the Chaparral 2E, wing and all (the Can-Am began the following year); my all time favorite driver is Nelson Piquet, for the same reasons I like Hunt, Hailwood and Innes Ireland; I highly recommend "The 1000 bhp Grand Prix Cars" by Ian Bamsey; and I don't believe there's anyone currently writing who's fit to trim the beards of Denis Jenkinson or Henry N. Manney III.
But, you know, that's only me. Glad to have found this place!
Posted 21 February 2000 - 12:11
We'll see...
Posted 23 February 2000 - 01:20
Posted 23 February 2000 - 05:46
I loved Jenks' writing - as you can see in the 'enquiring mind' thread, and I always looked forward to Henry N Manney III's stories, they were great fun.
Posted 24 February 2000 - 03:48
I'm a 21 year old student living in Edinburgh. I've been following this Bulletin Board on-and-off for a long time now, well over a year anyway. I remember Don Capps (HNM III at the time) emroiled in a huge debate over Nascar when I found this place, so things haven't changed too much.
I've been watching F1 since the mid-eighties and I saw Herbert win at Silverstone, the only time i've been to a race. The foursome of Senna, Prost, Mansell and Piquet are my golden era. I would have loved to see Clark, Fangio and other greats in action.
I never posted because I spent all my time reading! I can't believe its possible for one person to follo wall that goes on on this BB.
Kev the Rev:
From where in Fife are you from? I'm from St Andrews originally, and I have many relatives in Dunfermline and Cowdenbeath. I'm not much of a footie fan though.
Posted 24 February 2000 - 06:24
I have been building and support PC's since 1982 and love to modify software and hardware. Also, skiing, astronomy and trial riding take up most of my free time ( besides my Siberian Husky). Hopefully, we have a exciting F1 season this year. I could care less who wins, I just need a rush! PASSING, PASSING, PASSING!!!


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