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Sad News
I tried contacting Jeff Joplin (acronymsystems) yesterday, I was notified by his wife this morning that he had passed away rather unexpectedly on Sept 14th.

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09-27-2019, 02:40 PM
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RE: Sad News
Oh geez.

I'm the system admin of this site. Private security technician, licensed locksmith, hack of a c developer and vintage computer enthusiast. 

https://contrib.irixnet.org/raion/ -- contributions and pieces that I'm working on currently. 

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Technical problems should be sent my way.
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09-27-2019, 04:41 PM
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Oh man, that's the guy I bought my O2 drive from, he even gave me his number and we talked for a good long while.
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09-27-2019, 09:55 PM
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RE: Sad News
really sad news
RIP

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10-01-2019, 03:31 PM
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Aw man, my 300 mhz system and two of my o2 Irix system drives (clean irix installs for my o2 and Octane are from Jeff. I have email exchanges from him in 2018

------------- His last email to me.---------------
My pleasure & thanks again for the business! I'll invoice you directly. Regards, Jeff

Jeffrey B. Joplin
http://acronymsystems.com
acronym1@swbell.net
469.230.8015
----------------------------------

Sad our community lost one of our nicest supporters and very sad for his family for sure.

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10-13-2019, 02:24 AM
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I found out the same way. I was wondering why he had no listings on ebay as I was looking to purchase another drive from him. So I emailed Acronym and got a response from his Wife. This is really sad. I have purchased numerous drives from him for all my systems mostly because they are good, very quiet SCSI HDs that are all configured to your system and options. Never had a single issue with anything from him. His service was top rate and fast. I consider this as a big loss to our community.

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