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  • Tandy TRS-80 Engineer Frank Durda IV

    From turnkit@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 28 00:43:29 2018
    Sad to note that Frank Durda IV, a quality contributor to this forum, died last month:

    https://web.archive.org/web/20180428073929/https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/fort-worth-tx/frank-durda-7789060

    https://web.archive.org/web/20180315064736/https://www.gofundme.com/thefightforfrank

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  • From Charles Richmond@21:1/5 to turnkit on Sun Apr 29 17:47:19 2018
    On 4/28/2018 2:43 AM, turnkit wrote:
    Sad to note that Frank Durda IV, a quality contributor to this forum, died last month:

    https://web.archive.org/web/20180428073929/https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/fort-worth-tx/frank-durda-7789060

    https://web.archive.org/web/20180315064736/https://www.gofundme.com/thefightforfrank


    Frank Durda IV was a fountain of knowledge about all things TRS-80!!! Especially if you had a question about the disk operating systems, Frank
    was the best one to ask!!!

    --
    numerist at aquaporin4 dot com

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  • From Cord Coslor@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 30 08:38:54 2018
    So sad to hear this about Frank. He was always such a help with anything TRS-80 related, and was so invaluable that years ago, as a youngster, I could shoot him an e-mail with silly questions or whatever, and he truly became a friend. He helped develop a
    true love of the Tandy machines for me!

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  • From Charles Richmond@21:1/5 to Cord Coslor on Mon Apr 30 14:32:30 2018
    On 4/30/2018 10:38 AM, Cord Coslor wrote:
    So sad to hear this about Frank. He was always such a help with anything TRS-80 related, and was so invaluable that years ago, as a youngster, I could shoot him an e-mail with silly questions or whatever, and he truly became a friend. He helped develop
    a true love of the Tandy machines for me!


    ISTM Frank used to have an internet server "lonestar" that operated in
    the Dallas Texas area. It ran on an ATT 3B2 and was also a Usenet node.
    One could obtain a *free* account on it and read/post Usenet messages.

    --
    numerist at aquaporin4 dot com

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  • From neilsmorr@gmail.com@21:1/5 to turnkit on Mon Apr 30 18:41:08 2018
    On Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 12:43:30 AM UTC-7, turnkit wrote:
    Sad to note that Frank Durda IV, a quality contributor to this forum, died last month:

    Sorry to hear that. I kept hoping for a book on his time at Tandy.

    N

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  • From Tyrone F. Horneigh@21:1/5 to turnkit on Thu May 3 23:38:34 2018
    On 4/28/18 3:43 AM, turnkit wrote:
    Sad to note that Frank Durda IV, a quality contributor to this forum, died last month:
    http://www.trs-80.org/tag/steve-leininger/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180428073929/https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/fort-worth-tx/frank-durda-7789060

    https://web.archive.org/web/20180315064736/https://www.gofundme.com/thefightforfrank

    Wow. This is really sad news. Looking back over the last 13 years of comp.sys.tandy (my news server has great retention), Frank is possibly
    the most prolific - and accurate - poster here. Certainly in the top 3.

    Frank definitely belongs in the TRS-80 Hall Of Fame. Along with Tim
    Mann, Roy Soltoff, Steve Leininger, Don French and many others.

    Anyone have any personal stories/memories to share?

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  • From Bill Degnan@21:1/5 to Tyrone F. Horneigh on Mon Nov 6 06:37:56 2023
    On Thursday, May 3, 2018 at 11:38:41 PM UTC-4, Tyrone F. Horneigh wrote:
    On 4/28/18 3:43 AM, turnkit wrote:
    Sad to note that Frank Durda IV, a quality contributor to this forum, died last month:
    http://www.trs-80.org/tag/steve-leininger/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180428073929/https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/fort-worth-tx/frank-durda-7789060

    https://web.archive.org/web/20180315064736/https://www.gofundme.com/thefightforfrank
    Wow. This is really sad news. Looking back over the last 13 years of comp.sys.tandy (my news server has great retention), Frank is possibly
    the most prolific - and accurate - poster here. Certainly in the top 3.

    Frank definitely belongs in the TRS-80 Hall Of Fame. Along with Tim
    Mann, Roy Soltoff, Steve Leininger, Don French and many others.

    Anyone have any personal stories/memories to share?

    I have a ROM and envelope addressed to Roy Soltoff from Frank Durda IV. Maybe a few other things. You can see at Kennett Classic musuem with Roy's TRS 80 model 4 and a few related artifacts.
    Bill Degnan
    vintagecomputer.net / kennettclassic.com

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