Spare a though for PKZip inventor

SteveC

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Spare a though for PKZip inventor

26 April 2000, 01:48

Hi Guys,

Not sure where to post this, but next time you use any PKware software, please spare a thought for Phillip W Katz, the inventor of PKZip which EVERYONE has used. He was found on the 14th April dead in a motel room.

Full story: http://www.pcformat.co.uk/newsread.asp?story_id=627

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Cheers,
Steve

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26 April 2000, 16:54

thats a shame, to be responsibale for so much only to fall so low and only to be know in death.

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