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Joe Kohn was involved in the Apple II community for many years, from the early days of the bulletin board systems, through the early online services, and in print. He passed away in early January 2010. It was announced soon afterwards on the KansasFest mailing list by Howard Katz::
It is with heavy heart that I report this--one of the Apple II's notable personalities has passed away.
Joe Kohn of ShareWare Solutions II, died on Jan. 6th, 2010 following a battle with metastatic cancer. He was 62 years old and lived in Marin County, Calif.
Joe got to know many Apple II people when he was a Sysop on the Source, and his interest in the Apple started to grow. He became interested in writing about the II and was a regular contributor to the Apple IIGS Buyer's Guide and then wrote for inCider/A+, most notably writing about shareware programs. He then started ShareWare Solutions II from 1993 thru 1999, while running an online store for Apple shareware and freeware titles. He was active on several of the online services when they were still supporting the A2, including Compuserve, AOL and Delphi.
An avid Apple II fan, Joe owned numerous Apple II computers including the rare Mark Twain IIGS, and used his GS for all of his work, including online work as his preferred machine.
In his later years he was was president of the Marin Chapter of the Californian Native Plant Society, and became an expert on native wildflowers and other California plants.
Burial will be in Marin County on Jan. 8th, and a memorial service will be held on Saturday. |
Kohn's web site for Shareware Solutions II listed the various shareware and freeware titles for which he had permission to distribute, and listed the contents for the first two volumes of his newsletter.
Here I reproduce a portion of his website, to preserve some of his work. I have excluded the parts that pointed the reader to a page that would allow purchase of the various items.
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10 Jan 10