Robert X. Cringely, chronicler of the PC era, has died
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-10-12
Mark Stephens, known to readers as Robert X. Cringely, passed away last week. He wrote Accidental Empires, chroncling Silicon Valley and the PC industry of the 1970s-90s, which inspired the acclaimed PBS series Triumph of the Nerds, and penned a widely read gossip column on the original PC companies in InfoWorld. His wife shared the obituary on his public Facebook page, suggesting donations to the American Heart Association or the American SIDS Institute.
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