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Sunday, April 23, 2000

PKZip Creator, Dead at 37 -- 12:01 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Philip Katz, the "PK" in PKZip, died in a motel room on April 14. He was 37. His death was a result of apparent chronic alcoholism. What a senseless waste.

I remember when PKZip first came out and how much better it was that all the other (ARC, ARJ, LZH, etc.) compression programs out there--which is a HUGE thing when you are using 2400 baud modems.

J.t.Qbe comments: Other than MS-DOS, I don't think I used any other software more than PK(un)Zip throughout the late '80s/early '90s. It was a great time saver when I had the old 1200 and 2400 baud modems.

I remember one summer day in '92 or '93, driving the back roads from Mequon to Grafton. I came up behind a sporty red car (Corvette maybe?) with a vanity plate which said "PKWARE". . .

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