[Coco] [Color Computer] william barden

[William Astle]

On 2011-07-08 11:40, gene heskett wrote:
> On Friday, July 08, 2011 01:20:02 PM Boisy G. Pitre did opine:
> 
>> Gene,
>>
>> I don't know where you get this information, but I just talked to Bill
>> Barden on the phone.  He's a nice guy and was surprised to hear that
>> people thought he had passed.
>>
>> I started here:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barden,_Jr.
> 
> The wikipedia response I just got says it never heard of him.  The page is 
> 100%  404 & asks if I want to create it.

Try using the *entire* link. The "." at the end is part of it, even
though most "linkifiers" in email software won't pick it up.

>  
>> then went to here:
>>
>> http://williambardenjr.com/Personal.htm
>>
>> and got his contact information.
>>
> Pages are alive and well.  I am half tempted to call him and apologize in 
> my best Mark Twain (Hall Holbrook) voice.
> 
>> I repeat: Bill Barden is very much alive!
> 
> Glad to hear it!
>  
>> Best Regards,
>> Boisy G. Pitre
>> http://www.tee-boy.com/
>>
>> On Jul 8, 2011, at 9:23 AM, gene heskett wrote:
>>> On Friday, July 08, 2011 10:21:13 AM chargeron did opine:
>>>> Is selling his TRS-80 and COCO books on Amazon.com
>>>>
>>>> He has a new book he recently wrote... Thunderclap as well - $2.99
>>>
>>> This would not be the William Barden we knew.  His widow maybe.  AFAIK
>>> he passed several years ago.
>>>
>>>> Check them out...
>>>>
>>>> Ron Delvaux
> 
> Boisy, I can recall it being discussed on this list, maybe 2 years ago, and 
> I wasn't the originator at that time, but I did go check out the funeral 
> homes obit that I got from a google search, and it sure read like the 
> William Barden we all knew.  Since he was a Jr., perhaps it was his father?  
> I don't have any data on that.  And I am very sorry to find I was repeating 
> a rumor.  That is one I won't repeat again that's for sure.
> 
> That he is alive and well, it is to me no small cause for giving thanks.
> 
> His books on assembly language programming for both the 6809 and the Z-80 
> taught me a lot.  We won't mention the mistakes that may have been like a 
> cartographers map, if he saw them repeated, pretty solid evidence of 
> copyright infringement.
> 
> Cheers, gene