Charley Lasner

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Sun Apr 29 19:51:20 2001

On April 29, Billy D'Augustine wrote:
> It occurs to me that there are several PDP-8'ers here. Quite some time ago,
> at least 1992, I got involved with a group of people, and one of them was
> Charley Lasner. As far as reptutation went, he was the guru of -8s. He lived
> in NYC at the time, and I visited him for the weekend. Actually, it was the
> very same weekend that ST:TNG premired, because I was little disappointed
> that I missed it, but I figured hacking was more important!
>
> So, does anyone remember him or know how to reach him?

  This hit the pdp8-lovers mailing list last year:


>From: Robert Harper <rwh_at_c...>
>Date: Tue Nov 7, 2000 10:35 pm
>Subject: RE: [PDP8-Lovers] What Happened to Charles Lasner?
>
>I'm a long-time, close personal friend of Charlie's --- we've known each
>other and worked together for nearly 30 years now, dating back to the early
>days of the -8. I got concerned about him about a year ago, and tracked him
>down through his brother. He's doing fine, spending much of his time on
>Long Island with a new (at that time) female friend. His e-mail address
>hasn't changed ( lasner_at_s...). I don't know why he's dropped out
>of the PDP8-Lovers discussion. As far as I know he's alive and well and
>happy, but probably preoccupied with a variety of projects and interests.


       -Dave McGuire
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