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Does anyone know whatever happened to Miles Kinlock?

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In the 1990s, during the 'dark times' of the Spectrum (between the commercial magazine days of old, and the then in-the-future forums of WOS), a few of us kept the torch burning by swapping commercial and PD software via letters and parcels. Me, Andy Davis (of Alchemist News fame), Dave Fountain, Paul Howard, etc, and Miles Kinloch.

Miles wasn't just a good pen-friend, but he was a very good programmer, and he did some fantastic stuff, including fixing a ton of bugs in the two operating systems for the +D (offical OS, and the third party Beta-DOS). And we kept in touch for a few years, but then he stopped writing to me, and I never found out why. He lived in Scotland (Edinburgh), so I couldn't just go up there and knock on his door. And he'd never appeared on any Spectrum forums, as far as I could tell.

And I was reminded about this by George Siougas, another old pen-friend from the 90s, who asked me if I was still in touch with Miles. So does anyone know how he's doing now, or how to contact him? Miles was a great bloke, clever and friendly, so I can't imagine he'd just suddenly decide to become a hermit, and break off all contact with people. Plus he loved the Speccy, so I'd have thought he'd visit WOS or comp.sys.sinclair or similar on occasion.

Hopefully nothing seriously bad happened to him. Can anyone help, please?

Comments

  • zx1zx1
    I have a letter from Miles (dated May 1991) where he politely declinded to publish my Quill programmed adventure (it was a murder mystery) and told me to try Zenobi but they had a full release schedule. He did send me a free copy of HRH though as compensation!
    I think Miles sold his PD library to Zenobi soon afterwards and moved onto other things.
    The trouble with tribbles is.......
  • Dave FountainDave Fountain
    Remarkably nice guy, could never do enough for you and expected nothing in return. There is a Miles Kinloch on Facebook but no photos and from what I remember no activity. Guess we last wrote to each other in 1999 or 2000. He would surely have gone on to newer pastures as far as computers were concerned as the Spectrum really was in a barren place before the internet took up the cudgel. I do seem to remember he was interested in PCs rather than say the Amiga route.
  • DavidBDavidB
    There's a few names that have vanished including Andy David as well.
    No one important.
  • vanpeeblesvanpeebles
    Alchnews was great. I also remember top quality fanzines like The ZX Files and Classix(I think it was called?).
  • DavidBDavidB
    DavidB wrote: »
    There's a few names that have vanished including Andy David as well.

    Darn autocorrect. I meant Andy Davis of course.

    No one important.
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