Actually, Alex, Mike's passing was (too?) widely discussed on his Yahoo
Group 'sliderule'.

--- In slideruleforum@yahoogroups.com, "Alex" <halcon2@y...> wrote:
> and how did you find out about hi death ? there was no post in this
> forum .. was it ?? just curious.
> Alex
>
> --- In slideruleforum@yahoogroups.com, "Ed Cramer"
<3287209cra@c...>
> wrote:
> > I only new Michael via e-mail. He was very patient with all of my
> questions and always got back to me with the information that I need.
> I asked a lot of questions, I always do, and he had answers or places
> for me to go to find out what I was looking for.
> > I am sure that his family misses him terribly. We who knew him only
> through his efforts and knowledge about our collecting desires will
> also terribly miss him. Ed Cramer
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]