Robert X. Cringley, longtime Silicon Valley chronicler, has died
CharlesW · hn · 2026-10-13
A Hacker News post shares the obituary of Robert X. Cringley, the longtime tech columnist who chronicled Silicon Valley and the PC industry for decades, authored Accidental Empires, and co-created PBS's Triumph of the Nerds.
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