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Donald Ham :sp_pride:I went searching for software nostalgia just now, and found a copy of DOS-based Professional File, a flat-file database I used at the Texas Seaport Museum in 1990. I used it to automate our main fundraiser, a silent auction. Manually matching winning bids to items, and generating a bill for the winners, took 2 hours after the auction closed. With the new system on a Compaq 286 laptop, it took 20 minutes. I don't think I've ever since felt as empowered by technology.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TexasSeaportMuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TexasSeaportMuseum</a>

Donald Ham :sp_pride:Happy Juneteenth to all! From The Bitter Southerner, here is a lovely recollection of Juneteenth in Houston, background on the important date, and a red drink recipe. I was assistant director of Galveston's Texas Seaport Museum in the early '90s; it's on Pier 21 in the city's port, likely not far from where the ship docked with the new Union commander arriving with the declaration of freedom in 1865. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Juneteenth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Juneteenth</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Galveston" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Galveston</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Houston" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Houston</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TexasSeaportMuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TexasSeaportMuseum</a> <a href="https://bittersoutherner.com/feature/2021/tiffanie-barriere-juneteenth-jubilee" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://bittersoutherner.com/feature/2021/tiffanie-barriere-juneteenth-jubilee</a>

Donald Ham :sp_pride:<a href="https://c.im/@msbellows" class="u-url mention">@msbellows</a> I saw your mention of work in mountain rescue! When I was a volunteer crew member on tall ship Elissa at the Texas Seaport Museum in Galveston, I was trained in rig rescue. Our job was to get into this harness and be hoisted aloft to help should a crew member be injured in the rigging (80-100 feet above the deck) and unable to climb down. This me in about 1989 on a training exercise. Luckily I never was called on to do it for real.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TexasSeaportMuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TexasSeaportMuseum</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TallShip" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TallShip</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Elissa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Elissa</a>

Donald Ham :sp_pride:<a href="https://mastodon.scot/@thisismyglasgow" class="u-url mention">@thisismyglasgow</a> A far happier story is the barque Elissa, built at the Alexander Hall shipyard in Glasgow in 1877, fully restored by the Galveston (Texas) Historical Foundation in the 1980s, still lovingly maintained by volunteers, and still sails on sea trials every fall in the Gulf of Mexico. Elissa is open to the public at the Texas Seaport Museum, where I was assistant director in 1990-91.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TexasSeaportMuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TexasSeaportMuseum</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GalvestonHistoricalFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GalvestonHistoricalFoundation</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TallShip" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TallShip</a> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elissa_(ship)" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elissa_(ship)</a>

Donald Ham :sp_pride:Just a little <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ThrowbackThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ThrowbackThursday</a> One thing I know that's a little different: I can sail a square-rigged vessel. I was a volunteer crewmember aboard the tall ship <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Elissa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Elissa</a> at the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TexasSeaportMuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TexasSeaportMuseum</a> in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Galveston" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Galveston</a> at the end of the 80s. I was the museum's assistant director in 1990-91. That's me just to the left of the mast, helping furl the main topgallant.

Donald Ham :sp_pride:To know me, know my hashtags<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/oklahoma" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#oklahoma</a> (4th generation, lived there until I was 30. BA,journ at <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ou" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ou</a>, most of masters in ed admin) <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#texas</a> (lived in the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Houston" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Houston</a> area, was announcer/producer at <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/kuhf" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#kuhf</a> late 80s-early 90s. Later, assistant director at <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/texasseaportmuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#texasseaportmuseum</a> in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/galveston" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#galveston</a> ) <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Chicago</a> (transitioned to IT, system analyst at <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/uofchicagohospitals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#uofchicagohospitals</a>, later emerging technology analyst for <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/wrigley" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#wrigley</a>) <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Florida</a> (continued IT work remotely for Wrigley, then for <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/avoncosmetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#avoncosmetics</a> (2 be continued)

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