jbtubman@water.UUCP (Jim Tubman [LPAIG]) (08/05/85)
[Source: Toronto Globe and Mail, Monday, Aug. 5, 1985. Condensed and reprinted without permission.] 14 IBM Staff, Relatives Died in Crash MIAMI (AP) -- The man who headed the team that developed IBM's personal computer was among 14 company employees and their relatives killed in the crash of Delta Air Lines Flight 191 in Dallas on Friday, an IBM spokesman said. Phillip (Don) Estridge and his wife, Mary Ann, died when the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar jetliner crashed while attempting to land at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, IBM spokesman John Pope said Saturday from the company's office in Boca Raton, Fla. The plane was flying from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport to Los Angeles, with a stop in Dallas. The airline reported that 131 of the 162 people on board the plane died. A motorist on the ground was also killed. Mr. Estridge joined IBM in 1959 as a junior engineer in Kingstown, N.Y., and held various positions until July, 1981, when he was appointed director of entry systems business in Boca Raton. It was that group that developed the IBM Personal Computer and began marketing it in August, 1981. Mr. Estridge was made an IBM vice-president in 1984 and assumed his last position as vice-president of manufacturing in March. Jim Tubman University of Waterloo