Hello, --- On Tue, 10/23/12, Jeff Walther <[email protected]> wrote:
>One of the users over at 68kmla.org managed to contact his sister, or was >>already in contact. I'm not clear on which. A search through the >postings >on 68kmla.org will turn up the discussion although it's likely to >take a >while unless your search foo is much better than mine. I think >the user >might have been Wally, but I'm not sure. So I'd start wtih a >search with >Gamba as the keyword and look for posts by Wally. Curiosity being one of my (many) failings, I used the information you helpfully provided to do a site search of 68kmla. This is probably old hat by now, but: Google allows you to search for words within websites themselves. So: wally + gamba site:68kmla.org ...produced 19 results. The fourth post in this thread: http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1412 ...tells the sad story. I'm not certain whether Wally met up with Gamba's sister purely by accident or deliberately sought her out, but Sunnyvale, CA (where Wally lives) is a fairly short distance from Los Altos, CA (where Gamba lived). At any rate, the post seems to indicate that Wally met her in 2007, about four years after Gamba's death.. I've referred to Gamba's outstanding site from time to time, but was entirely unaware of the backstory concerning the author of the site. Thank you for filling us in on that. It's stories like Gamba's that make me try to visualize a label saying "Contents Under Pressure" on the foreheads of other people whenever I interact with them. It's difficult to know (or in some cases, even to guess at) what other people are up against as they do their best to move through life. (Of course, it's even trickier to do on the Internet when disembodied text seems to magically appear on your monitor, with very little in the way of visual identity.) Best, James Fraser -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
