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From: Chris Ridd on 8 Apr 2010 08:19
On 2010-04-08 12:37:22 +0100, Jim said:

> D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> He died today, from cancer of the bowel and liver.
>>
>> He was one of the few people who knew that microcomputers were going to
>> make a difference to people's everyday lives. As far as the public were
>> concerned he was an important midwife to the new technology, because he
>> helped bring it out into the wider world.
>
> I remember him from Personal Computer World.

Me too. He also wrote a couple of columns for ST World. He was
obviously able to write about computing in general, not just being
limited to the Microsoft-compatible (then IBM-compatible I suppose)
stuff. He'll be missed.

--
Chris

From: eastender on 8 Apr 2010 16:46
In article
<1jgmqoo.f6o3f73bpf1yN%real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk>,
real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk (D.M. Procida) wrote:

> He died today, from cancer of the bowel and liver.
>
> He was one of the few people who knew that microcomputers were going to
> make a difference to people's everyday lives. As far as the public were
> concerned he was an important midwife to the new technology, because he
> helped bring it out into the wider world.


I knew him in the 1980s when I was covering the same beat as a
journalist - I remember being rather envious of the kit he had in his
flat.

E.
From: Bruce Horrocks on 8 Apr 2010 19:14
On 08/04/2010 21:46, eastender wrote:

> I knew him in the 1980s when I was covering the same beat as a
> journalist - I remember being rather envious of the kit he had in his
> flat.
>
> E.

Are you the journalist referred to in El Reg as remarking that he no
carpets but a PABX?

--
Bruce Horrocks
Surrey
England
(bruce at scorecrow dot com)
From: eastender on 9 Apr 2010 04:41
In article <8276a4Fnf8U2(a)mid.individual.net>,
Bruce Horrocks <07.013(a)scorecrow.com> wrote:


> Are you the journalist referred to in El Reg as remarking that he no
> carpets but a PABX?

No not me - I don't recall a PABX... I lived a few streets away from him
though and was round at his place a few times. I think his dedication to
the PC world was tremendous � I was more a minicomputer man and
eventually left the gadgety side, but he became more important in some
ways than the technology, which is some achievement.

E.
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