Dear John,

I started with Wellfleet, and moved to Cisco.  I remember the days, and nights hunched over the terminal screen, green glow lighting my face in the dark recesses of the wiring closet, diligently pounding out new configurations for network translation... working with FDDI, Arcnet, Token-Ring, Thicknet, IPX and IP, ATM...

The router then took off, Cisco became a household name, stocks rocketed, the 2500 series ruled the datacenters, remote sites, and even some in homes... All IT Support was judged against Cisco Support.  Those were the days...

Then something happened... Cisco began building more "stuff" onto the router, and prices changed dramatically... Cisco began the march to be the next Microsoft... Bloat filled the network... and I have no time for either any more... so...
Farewell...