Fred, probably there was no death file for Ward so the writer had to start from scratch. Associated Press has a deaths wire where they put up obits of people of interest. I’d assume that’s how NYT even knew about Ward. It’s interesting to me that they bothered to put up his obit as he is mildly famous even to tech folks. They might have seen the chatter about him and decided based upon that. 10 days might be because that’s when they had enough space in the newspaper or maybe they wanted it to run in the science or technology page which is not run every day. I wouldn’t be asked because i’m not a source for anything. I only knew about Edwins passing from other people on the Classic Computer discord. Death files have fact checked items and a summary obituary written usually for someone older like both Clintons, George Bush, Donald Trump, Jack Nicholson, Cher, etc. They are updated from time to time with new items.
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 23, 2024, at 15:10, CAREY SCHUG via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > for the "unwashed masses", cbbs was like a blog, and revolutionary. and > something they can relate to > > people send photos on emails, but file transfer with xmodem was only > meaningful for computer nerds. business did file transfer more like faxing. > specialized devices called each other, maybe even manually answered, and used > dedicated protocols for those devices. > > <pre>--Carey</pre>
