[bunkerhill7]

Knew him. RIP Mr. Godbout

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I never knew him but I shopped at his old corrugated steel electronics surplus shop at Oakland Airport many times. It had essentially zero organization but if you spent enough time there, you could probably find most anything you were looking for. I guess that was part of the appeal.

[Steely Tom]

I remember his psychedelic ads in BYTE magazine. RIP, Bill Godbout.

[Myrddin]

I recognize his name and have read articles he published. I had a small S100 system before opting for a Heathkit-H8. S100 was a pretty versatile approach. Sad to see Bill Godbout among the fire victims.

[Slyfox]

I am just amazed that the fire could completely decimate every car and house, and yet the pines trees still have all their needles.

[Wilhelm Tell]

I didn’t know him but his name brings back memories. I was a teenage electronics geek when the first microcomputers, often in kit from, became available. He was a pioneer in the microcomputer business. This is so sad. RIP.

[HighSierra5]

This fire is the most under reported news item in the country.

[saundby]

I knew him, too. He was among my electronics mentors, and paid me to build up boards for him when people ordered “Assembled and Tested” kits.

RIP, Bill.

[Paal Gulli]

I couldn’t place the name so I checked Wikipedia. He’s the guy who invented the expansion bus for the Altair 8800, which was the first PC marketed featuring a Microsoft OS (Altair BASIC) on an Intel chipset, which because the gold standard for PC configuration once IBM released the 5150 (PC DOS on an Intel 8088).

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.