[Milsurplus] [armyradios] Bill Godbout killed in Paradise, CA fire

Sun Nov 18 12:04:54 EST 2018

PARADISE CALIF  A HI TECH PIONEER  LOST - - 
(something I posted when we heard bad news to a computed group I belong to)
BEWARE THIS NARTIVE WANDERS>…
A very old friend Bill Godbout of the s100 computer days and my first real commercial buyer of any large quantity of surplus electronics material from me when I went into the early part of my computer store and surplus electronics business was burned in the fire in Paradise I have been informed. Very sad - He was a great guy - I met him at a computer fair in as I remember San Jose California … I believe it was at the fairgrounds …  (Fair was run by  a pleasant guy  (was  his  name  Craig  or?  Can someone clarify?) with the neatest 59 El Camino Chevy Truck (Prior to this I had never seen a ’59 before (I would love one!)  Steve Beleauh (sp?)  in High School  had  a ‘64 ) were I had taken mainly a bunch of odds and ends but also some 8 inch floppy disc power supplies that Intel had scrapped at Empire metals ( Gary and Ray no doubt had something to do with those ending up there … Hi guys!) and a box of AC power cords and some parts and stuff now what would be considered  scrap too....Bill Godbout had set up to sell. (of course, he had all kids of computer stuff his company produced and other things he was a vendor for... He was a big guy in the BIZ in those days, We of course had some power cords and Bill and I when talking got on the topic of power cords for computers ... the new style...like all out pcs use now. ( the prior version on one end the normal 3 prog plug in the wall plug and the other had oval ends and round pins... and were available all over but not so the "NEW" style ( like we use now) I ended up with many many palate loads ITT Courier Terminal Company in Tempe Arizona ( They made IDM clone cluster terminal system) was surplusing ... and had calculated the quantity and cost carefully and beat the Finkelstein Brothers -> Mhz Electronics and Semiconductor Surplus... Richard at MHz still alive Steve at Semi Passed away)... ALAS!! The brothers miscalculated or used that as a reason for not getting the lot in later conversations, but It set us up with more damn cords that I ever imagined I could even sell.

ANYWAY... First deal I did with him.... Telling Bill Godbout of all these cords he says ... well... "TRUST ME" ... "ship them to me and on receipt I will send you a check!" and then he jokes about I shouldn’t trust anyone in this business saying TRUST ME! But I did and true to his word his check arrived which set me up with enough cash to make many other great buys of Minicomputers, parts and terminals as I started out. Actually  I think that is  were the money came  from  to buy my  first PDP-8  from Richard at  MHz Electronics he had  laying about. It was a 8M  or  8F    like an  8E  with omnibus but  short case so only accepting one  Buss backplane and it used  LEDS  in the front panel vs  the light bulbs  the 8E  used. (I was  later able  to sell this for a large sum thus… increasing the  ‘Computer Exchange’  working capital. 

Thanks Bill. You will always be in our book as one of the original good guys.... and thanks for being someone I could trust in dealings. God in Heaven... Take good care of old Bill for me...

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On Saturday, November 17, 2018 Hubert Miller kargo_cult <armyradios at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Saw this in N.Y. Times, 15 Nov. 2018 :

" Also killed in the fire was Bill Godbout, 79, an influential figure in the early days of Silicon Valley who ran a popular electronics store. He was well known in the

hacker community, and remembered for his quirks, like his license to fly blimps. Robert Tuck, Mr. Godbout's grandson, said that Mr. Godbout had stayed behind

as his wife and relatives fled, probably to save his three cats….Mr. Tuck said through tears, 'He was listening to the radio report and thought he had a little more

time.' "

End quotes. When I saw the name, I recalled ads I had seen in '73' magazine, and if I recall, the ads were largely about digital electronics and early computer 

components. 

-Hue 

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