RIP Andrew Kay... Many, many moons ago I did some work (on a BIOS) for Kaypro, Andrew Kay's company that made some of the early “portable” computers. I briefly met with him in the process. The Kaypro II computers weren't laptops, mind you – they were more like pieces of luggage (in fact, some writers called them “luggable”). When I did my work for them, Kaypro was growing so quickly that assembly workers were hired to work outside in the pleasant Solana Beach climate, on picnic tables shaded by awnings. I did some of my BIOS testing on one such picnic table :)
Today comes word that Andrew Kay has died, at age 95. I've had no contact with since I did that work in (I believe) 1982, and I had no idea he was still alive. I remember a few of his stories about a career that was already long and interesting in 1982, when he would have been 63 – roughly my age right now...
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