On 4/27/2020 7:40 AM, Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 09:08:24AM -0500, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote:
Charles Lasner. He passed the weekend of April 3rd due to
complications from the COVID-19 virus. I'm fuzzy on his exact
biography, but he was big in the development of OS/8 for the PDP-8 at
DEC. His current project was an update of OS/8 which he called
P?S/8. Apparently he owned multiple LINC-8's according to comments on
the Facebook group.
He also worked onKermit-12, for instance the code that identifies which
PDP-8 machine it is running on. It is quite fun to follow that code. It
can, impressively, separate between a PDP-5, LINC-8, PDP-12, Straight-8,
8/S, 8/I, 8/L, 8/E, 8/A, 6100 and 6120.
Here, search for "MACHINE,.-."
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftp/d/k12mit.pal
A lot of PDP-8 know-how and trivia went with him, sorry to see him go.
/P
I looked up his obituaries, and include some links here. Also a link
discussing his visit to the RICM
I left a note on each of these. Everhear requires some sort of login.
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/charles-lasner-obituary?pid=195884420
https://www.everhere.com/us/obituaries/ny/west-babylon/charles-lasner-10663008
visit to RICM
https://groups.google.com/forum/?#!topic/alt.sys.pdp8/ZUVbAdtV8RA
Very sad to hear of his passing.
Jim
