I received sad news yesterday...

[Nathanieltolbert]

A large C64/128 and Amiga user in the KC Area passed away a few days ago. I regretfully never got a chance to meet him. A local KCAUG knew him and collected the collection and asked me to help sort some of the items that need to be passed on to others. I felt very weird going through the collection when I found out that the owner had passed away. The worst part for me is that I never got to meet him and his collection has some beautiful pieces in it. I think he would have been a great person to talk to. So I thought I might pass on the information and see if anyone knew him. The name I see on some of the packaging is a Joel Herbsman, but I'm uncertain if that is the gentleman who passed on. So if anyone knows him I would like to know more about him. It feels sad to me as I feel like as a group we are shrinking every day. Soon there will be so few of us left that the knowledge that everyone has here will be gone and there will be no way to replace it. I apologize for getting all moody, but I just feel bad, I guess. So if anyone knows the gentleman, if I have his name right, I would like to learn more about him. Thank you for taking a look and letting me know...

 

[salaxi54]

Sad, trully! But, as for knowledge, hopefully the amount spread on the internet globally, is humongous. It would be really nice if every single site and files could be concentrated and archived somewhere neatly, but it would take plenty of man-hours, and obviously resources..
However, my belief is that there's still plenty of us Commodorians/Amigans around the world. And most (knock on wood) have plenty a mileage to go still! So cheer up! A person's loss may not be an occasion for cheering up, indeed, but life goes on, and our machines will keep on going too.
Most forums i visit mention Amigans ranging in the tens of thousands in total, but i'm sure that we're aware of only a small percentage. There's plenty of people that are not actively participating in "societies" like ours, but still get informed of news and such..
I hope you find more about the fella!

 

[jvdbossc]

I never send out a single post before I found this place. Lots of hidden users as well.

Cheer up man, international looking lots of user alive and kicking. You are 30 having the best part of your live. Death is sad but the average is 76 years old for males .

 

[cosmicfrog]

It is in need sad going through someone elses belongings

one of the things I wanted to see on EAB was an obitary thread with info about the departed user then maybey I would find out just who the paul, green alien, guy is

any pics of the the collection before it all get split up ??

 

[Nathanieltolbert]

Sadly no, there weren't any pictures, but I have all of the Commodore Game Software listed on here in another thread.

 

[AmiNeo]

This is sad news indeed. Hopefully all his collection will go to well deserved places where they'll be looked after properly. He obviously took great pride in the collection so the bits he had deserve to be looked after appropriately.

 

[StrontiumDog]

I wonder if this is the person Nathan mentioned in #1

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/kansascity/obituary.aspx?n=joel-l-herbsman&pid=144596914

 

[Nathanieltolbert]

I believe that is indeed the gentleman I was talking about. I got to talk to the Commodore Users Group and find out information about it. Apparently they called him the Commodore Guru as he knew just tons about the 8-bit machines, as well as a significant amount about Amiga. He apparently was the nicest guy you could meet. I wish I could have met him at least once.

 

[Memphis]

:| sorry to hear that, rip c= friend