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McGruber [soylentnews.org] writes:

I learned of Robert X. Cringely's passing from Avram Miller, who wrote:
My friend Mark Stephens died last Saturday. Most of the world knew him as Robert X. Cringely. I knew him as the neighbor who stood with me on garage roofs in Sonoma County, pointing dish antennas at distant ridge tops in 2020, because it was not possible to get a broadband internet connection at my location. That is how we became friends, more than 25 years ago. We managed to use directional wifi and created a link to someone that had broadband several miles from my home.

Mark was creative, technically competent and a dreamer. He was a gifted writer and storyteller. One of the few historians of his time to track the development of the computer industry. Sometimes we would dream together. He and his family lived close to our home in Sonoma for many years. He had an amazing family including a wonderful wife, MaryAlyce. Eventually they moved back to South Carolina where is wife had family. With all his moving and all my moving, we did not communicate often but we meant a lot to each other.

ARTICLE: https://twothirdsdone.com/2026/10/11/goodby-mark-stephens-aka-bob-cringely/ [twothirdsdone.com]

Mark Stephen's obituary: https://www.hillandwood.com/obituaries/Mark-Stephens?obId=49806651 [hillandwood.com]

Robert X. Cringely's wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_X._Cringely [wikipedia.org]

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