[Coco] Link for Howard Luckey

[Joel Ewy]

Do you think whoever is in charge of Howard's estate knows the value of 
his CoCo and MM/1 equipment?  I don't mean its monetary value so much as 
its significance to people who are interested in such things.  He 
probably would have wanted them to be appreciated for what they are 
rather than being appraised as electronic waste.  He may well have made 
some plans for them, as his gift to WMU suggests that he was mindful of 
such things.  I think that our grief at Howard's passing would be 
compounded if his MM/1 and MM/1a were mistaken for '286 or '386 era PC 
clones and discarded accordingly.

Perhaps his having been the Glenside president would give the club some 
standing to respectfully, and in the proper time, ask the estate if it 
is aware of the significance of his CoCo-related hardware.  Even if the 
estate just sells it on ebay, it will have a higher possibility of going 
to someone who can appreciate it, than if it is just viewed as 
run-of-the-mill obsolete computer equipment.

JCE


briang0671 wrote:
> On 01/20/2010 11:06 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Wednesday 20 January 2010, briang0671 wrote:
>>   
>>> He has a sister Patty, a niece, who's name escapes me at the moment.
>>> I don't know about any brothers or about the rest of the family.
>>>
>>> Brian Goers
>>>
>>>      
>> Thanks Brian.  Any word on services, or a published Obit yet?
>>    
> No. I have no news yet.  I will let everyone know as soon as I find out.
>
> Brian Goers
>
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