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TidBITS' Adam Engst on Martin Minow (was Re:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. A. Hettinga)
Tue Jan 2 12:23:40 2001
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Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 07:39:24 -0500
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From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
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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/>
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