Last month brought the news that noted technology writer John C. Dvorak had died after complications from bypass surgery. In the 1980s and 1990s, Dvorak was one of the most visible commentators on the rise of personal computing—a sharp, sometimes harsh, but usually authoritative critic of the industry’s habits and excesses.
That memory of John came back to me because I once tried to arrange a product demonstration for him that might have been marketing gold and a feather in my cap.
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