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Gateway Computer Co-Founder Mike Hammond Dead At 53 (siouxlandnews.com)
damn_registrars writes: Mike Hammond, one of the three men who co-founded Gateway Computer, died over the weekend at the age of 53. Gateway started in an Iowa farmhouse in 1985 and shipped PCs straight to customers in boxes with a spotted-cow design. After retiring from Gateway, Hammond started Dakota Muscle to restore and repair classic cars.
Gateway is for cows! MOO go the cows! You cows!
I feel bad because he died, but I also feel good because I outlived him.
I mean, it's better that I read about his death than him reading about mine, right?
As my late great hero Yogi Berra said, "If you don't go to your friend's funerals, they won't go to yours."
R.I.P. Mike Hammond.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Having worked for them back around 2001 - 2004 before they laid us off in KC I saw them try everything to try to make profits by closing stores, getting out of the international markets, trying to get into the Consumer Electronic business, Buying eMachines (and letting there ownership take over), and finally closing locations and outsourcing. Some of the part failures were bad luck on their part (some were them being cheap) with Capacitor issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague and hard drive failures (If the WD issue is the one I remember it wasn't the drive but the controller, and you could switch out the controller board and everything would still be there and not have to worry about restoring from a backup).