The "Cursed Thread" of 2018

[robkelk]

RIP Bill Godbout, who amongst other things co-created with George Morrow the S-100 data bus (which made personal computers possible) and sold surplus hardware at discounted rates to computer hobbyists in the 1970s and 1980s (which made designing the Altair, Apple I, and other computers of that vintage possible).

His family has been left with nothing - he lived in Concow, and was unable to escape from the Camp Fire. GoFundMe page to help his next-of-kin - if everybody who has a home computer kicks in a dollar or two in thanks to the man who supported the people who created the earliest home computers, well...