Thanks! I appreciate the further details. For what it's worth, I think of Cringely more as a tech gossip columnist turned memoirist, so I expect it's lapses in

Thanks! I appreciate the further details. For what it's worth, I think of Cringely more as a tech gossip columnist turned memoirist, so I expect it's lapses in memory and being a bit slapdash, plus the difficulty of fact-checking anything in the pre-web era.