I would also like to add my sincere condolences...
been there....
My old friend was also an Amiga expert who was almost single handedly responsible for starting and maintaining a large and very active Amiga community in the Western NY and Toronto areas back in the mid 1980's and early 90's. I bought one of my first Amigas from him when they first came out. I still have and treasure it (and still use it, old as it is....it's never failed.)
I moved away back in 1996 to take a job in Japan. I went back on vacation to visit relatives (and him) some years later. I called his old office and was greeted with the oddest silence on the other end before they finally realized who I was. It turned out he had passed away about 8 months before, and no one had told me.
If you have an old friend you haven't called in a while, do it now....you never know....
