Thanks oisin, it's a beautiful story and his ex-wife gave me permission to share.

A huge number of us labor behind the scenes with no public acknowledgment or credit. For each idea brought to life we might hope for -at most- an epitaph carved in expired patent claims.

This story is touching.

It is, indeed. Thanks for writing that up, it touched me.

And thanks for being the historian of our culture-that-eschews culture (or so it seems to me sometimes, that tech tries to exist in a perennial present without acknowledging it's roots and history)

Thank you both!