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While Luxomni was away from home on "the Dukes of Hazzard", he lent the computer to his brother, Thom, who parlayed the knowledge he got from the old red Apple manual into a job repairing computers for a contractor who served the U.S. Navy. Luxomni went to work for the same company when he finished working on the series. After a year, Luxomni went back to show business, this time traveling with Rock-and-Roll shows as a rigger. The contractor went bankrupt and his brother went on to establish a database system on an NCR unix box for some friends' company. Eventually Luxomni's brother Thom went to work for another computer company, Masscomp where he allowed Luxomni to dial in and explore the Unix based computer after hours. Thus Luxomni became a superuser on unix prior to learning CP/M prior to learning DOS fully a decade before Windows. Later Thom went on to work for Cray Computers, and finally, Sun Microsystems.
I regret to inform you that my brother, Thom, died of complications of ALS on October 1, 2006. I will miss his humor and counterpoint.
Luxomni developed throat cancer in late 2004. He underwent 37 radiation treatments with Amifostine and nine weeks of chemotherapy. He is currently cancer free and recommends early detection and treatment as a path to the cure.
