re: what ever happened to....

["Donald C. Lee" <coach41@pacbell.net>]

Hi,

   Thanks penman for that update.  I had visited the TAG page and know
Chris has vanished.  I was hoping for "better" news that perhaps Chris has
just been busy and never gotten in touch with Howard.  

   I know this sounds rather weird, but perhaps Howard's contacts in
France could have gone to Chris's house or something and see if anything
was there or any note on what happened to him?  France is a big country
but I am sure someone could have done that or filed a missing person's
report.  

   Unfortunately, this brings up a story my co-worker relayed to me a
while back:  One of our ex-co workers also seemed to disappear as well.  
My co-worker was rather close to our mutual ex-co worker.  But this ex-co
worker seemed to pack up al lher stuff one day and "poof" she was gone.

   No one seems to know what happened to her, even the ex-co worker's SO
doesn't know.  

   A rather unusual case (both my co-worker's story and Chris's).  Too bad
TAG never could get off the ground.  But it's even worse if Chris
disappeared and no one ever knows what happened to him.

Don

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On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 penman-no-spam@cotse.com wrote:

> I used to subscribe to The AppleWorks Gazette, and a few years ago
> Howard sent a letter to all the subscribers telling how his partner,
> Chris Serreau disappeared.  Since then, on Delphi, he's said that
> in all that time that's past, he's not been able to contact Chris,
> by any means including phone calls to France, email or regualar
> postal means.  Chris apparently had most of the material for the
> issues that were in production, and Howard was going thru some hard
> times involving being laid off (never heard if he got full-time work
> again or not).  Howard thinks Chris may be dead, but has no way of
> finding out, and his contacts in France apparently weren't able to
> track down the info either.  I for one found the Gazatte to be a
> good publication--too bad it went under.  Howard, however, does still
> support the Apple II community.  I see he's doing lots of work
> getting software LEGALLY available to all of us via the
> reclassification work for The Lost Classics Project--a worthy cause
> and a good effort on his (and the other folks :) ) part.  Lost
> Classics has their files on Trenco (ftp.gno.org) and a web page of
> their own at http://www.a2central.com  Even tho the Gazette may be
> dead, there's still life in supporting the Apple II.  :)
> 
> Penman
> 
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