Talk:Chuck Colby

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Source[edit]

Some information about the "Colby Walkmac" is at:

Carnoy, David (May 30, 2013) "Walkmac revisited: The inside story of the 'first' portable Mac" cnet.com, Retrieved 5 June, 2013

220 of ^Borg 01:06, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Death?[edit]

Apparently as of 11/21/2020 he's been dead for a couple of years, but there seems to be nothing about it--I can't find an obituary. Somehow I'd never heard of him, but he certainly appears to be worthy of a longer article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.10.0.211 (talk) 02:58, 22 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Just made an edit to attest to this, but the page is gonna need a little more cleanup (not sure if there's an appropriate box template up top to swap in now that he's deceased). I'm inclined to agree that he seems fairly notable, but he seems to have kept a fairly low profile. Sources were in pretty short supply even when he was alive. Page now attests to the fact that he's passed, with a pretty tenuous source from his estate. Awaiting any obituary someone might be able to dig up. Emailed a contact for the estate to see if they had a link to an obituary or any other notice. Lython73 (talk) 04:13, 22 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I was at the estate sale and talked to the person running it, who was a family friend. No one there knew when he had died: He had no children, siblings, and his wife is believed to have Alzheimer's disease. He died sometime between March 2018 (when @njrabit last saw an email from him) and October 2020 (when stuff from his estate started showing up on ebay). I'm still researching to find a more exact date. Foone (talk) 05:02, 24 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The organizer of Chuck's estate sale put me in touch with a couple people who knew Chuck. One said he had heard from a very reliable source that Chuck passed in September 2018, but I don't have any written sources to back that up with quite yet. Waiting to hear back from both at the moment. Lython73 (talk) 22:47, 24 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]