At 9:00 PM -0800 on 1/1/01, TidBITS Editors wrote: > **The Passing of Martin Minow** -- I was cleaning out some old > email while flying back from visiting family for Christmas when I > came upon an message from Martin Minow, a puckish and insightful > friend I see every year at the Netters' Dinner at Macworld Expo. > The message didn't need a reply, but that didn't lessen my sadness > when I saw a new message in another mailbox telling me Martin had > just died suddenly of arteriosclerotic heart disease. Most > recently, Martin had been a senior software engineer at ThinkLink, > a voice-over-IP communications company, but before that he spent > seven years at Apple as a SCSI guru, and for the 20 years before > that he worked at Digital Equipment Corporation, first in Sweden > and then in the U.S. I didn't know Martin well on a personal > level, though he surprised me once in 1998 by inviting me to a > picnic barbecue his running club was putting on after the San > Francisco Bay to Breakers race. We hadn't exchanged email in > months, and I was perplexed as to how he'd heard I'd be running > that race. It turned out the news had leaked out via the > widespread network of Mac folks we both knew. I'll treasure that > quirky memory of Martin, both so a bit of him continues with me > and because it reminds me just how important the community of > Macintosh users really is. [ACE] > > <http://www.vmeng.com/minow/> -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
