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Comment by mahrain | Hacker News Reader

Reminded me of John C Dvorak, same generation, had a heart attack in April then died in July...

I didn't know about Dvorak's passing. I have read so many things he wrote, same for Robert X Cringely. Back in the heyday of the pc and the early internet, I loved reading their latest stuff. Cringely in PC Week or something similar. Those were happy days, I was just a programmer at one of the big companies of the day.

I loved his kind of cringe worthy references to his paramour, Pam or Pammy I think. That was a simpler time, a more optimistic time.

I read InfoWorld for its entire run, from when it was on newsprint in the 80s. Is there anyplace to read a true and complete history of the Cringely column? As I recall, I thought of this guy as 'not Cringely'. I'm happy to be corrected, but there was more than one Cringely. As I recall, there was even a lawsuit over rights to the name.

I just found at the bottom of this Cringely website info page, he says there were indeed more than one person calling themselves Cringely. And he was writing for InfoWorld, not PC Week.

https://www.cringely.com/bout-bob/

"Through a cruel twist of fate having to do with federal judges and unscrupulous lawyers there is, for the moment, more than one Robert X. Cringely. You are right now reading the one true Cringely, author, raconteur, TV personality, and pizza delivery specialist."

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