(A day late & a dollar short; I just noticed this.) Dave (AKA "dammital" or "DBA") and I go WAY back; I met him as a freshman at Florida Technological University in 1972. He took me under his wing and mentored me, introducing me to APL (on an IBM 1130), formal language specification, compiler theory and so much more. Dave got me my first post-college job (at Orange County Public Schools), where we were both system programmers (VS1 on a 370/145, then a 158).
When I left central Florida in the late 70s Dave and I remained friends, corresponding first by good old snail mail and then via early email systems (notably BITNET). We would reconnect in person at SHARE and on my visits to Florida, where my family remained. We would go out out riding on Segways (he owned two), on walks around Winter Park and the massively expanded FTU campus (now University of Central Florida). For a while we shared a colo BSD server for our personal domains; Dave did most of the system admin stuff. Dave was a licensed pilot, active in community theater (primarily as a stage tech), devoted husband and father of two delightful children. I've never met a finer human being, and I miss him terribly. -- Jerry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
