[Discussion] Elliot's collection [was Free OS/2 Material Available (with Nostaglia)]

[Thomas Clayton]

I went looking thru my free Juno e-mail folders - an account that
remains with me, even though I left it ?-(  - when I did my monthly
clean up-and-out of that account this past weekend. I found I'd made a
folder with just his and my letters about 'the stuff' in it.
(Seperately, there was  a folder with your 'announcement' of 'the
stuff's' availability - and replies / inquiries about it.) From a quick
glance at Elliot's letters, it seems he was going to take and 'present'
that 'collection' to the ?HOW Gig? and/or Leo Martin. I don't know IF
that ever took place.

My thoughts on 'the stuff' were
/you/ might be seeing some of your old stuff If you were helping his
Mom clean things out
and
/IF/ anyone in the Phoenix AZ area - or beyond - had an interest in
'old OS/2 stuff', this /might be/ a possible source.

Lastly, I'd expressed my condolences at the time, on-line in some sort
of condolences e-book. I remember writing something about grieving for
someone I'd never met /in person/(*) and, yet I grieved for, because I
had exchanged e-mails with him about how he was doing thru various ups
and downs in his health and had /hoped to/ meet. I could repeat that to
his Mom, at this late date, /IF/ you'd think that'd be helpful.

(*)unless he had been an attendee at Warpstock '98 but I don't remember
/specifically/ meeting him there

BTW, it was Evelyn Hitch, I now think, who sold me the OS/2 t-shirt
/and/ the subscription to /E.A./ there. Your picture, accompanying the
article doesn't seem to 'jog' my mind as /the/ person. Although, I seem
to recall someone being nearby talking at 100 miles an hour (you?).


Very Sincerely,

Thomas Clayton


--- Esther Schindler <esther at bitranch.com> wrote:

> Thomas, if you want to call Elliot's mom, I'm pretty sure I have the 
> 
> info somewhere. I have no idea what he did with all that stuff.
> 
> On Nov 16, 2007, at 4:34 PM, Thomas Clayton wrote:
> > An ASIDE:
> > BTW, mentioning this after having read Esther's article mentioning
> > Elliot; reminds me that he had removed from Schindlers' old home a
> > quantity of OS/2 material that he WAS going to make a list of, for
> us.
> >
> > (Of course, he had had one illness after another after doing that
> good
> > deed and never got to make such a list. I /did/ ask him once  
> > whether he
> > thought he had gotten his ?pneunomia? from Schindlers' "musty old" 
> 
> > OS/2
> > 'stuff' and he said he was pretty certain that was /NOT/ the case.
> As
> > you might recall, he actually had had a bad 'ticker' which, I
> think,
> > makes one prone to such lung diseases. He probably knew this
> already,
> > but did not mention it in his letter to me.)
> >
> > Anyway,
> > IF any of you are in the actual Phoenix area,
> > THEN  you might want to see if those items /are/ still at his  
> > mother's.
> > (You /might/ want to help out his Mother and offer to remove them,
> > too???) (She might /not/ wish that. Did Esther in her article
> mention
> > visting his Mom? Check with her? (E.))
> 
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