Whoa! I got this "Re: Phil Payne" before I see the
"Phil Payne". Although not explicitly stated, it
seems he took his own life. Anyone know when this
happened?
I enjoyed his contributions and had a few correspondences
with him over the years. A true original, and I'll miss
him and his view of life and the universe.
On 12/17/2012 2:25 PM, Roger Bowler wrote:
On bit.listserv.ibm-main 15 Dec 2012 Gordon de la Mare wrote:
For those of you who were long term subscribers to this
newsgroup you will have had memories of Phil.
Lots of bust ups with IBM (especially their lawyers) as
some of his postings attest.
They can rest now.
Phil decided he'd had enough of the planet and decided
to save on any future expenditure on health costs by
getting out early.
He posted a write up of his life on his website:
http://www.isham-research.co.uk/biog.html
The end bits explains why he had had enough.
I had pleasure (?) in working with Phil at Amdahl back in
the 1980-90s. He'd have made a great agent provocateur
in times of war.
Regards
Gordon (a once upon a time JES3 specialist - oh how nice
to write those words again!)
He was a very clever bloke. Highly knowledgeable and a master of the withering
put-down. I never met him in real life but I consider it an honour to have been
insulted by him on a number of occasions via the internet.
Roger Bowler
Hercules "the people's mainframe"
See also http://www.quattroforum.com/index.php?threads/phil-payne.18061/
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