John Martellaro, RIP
He rose to the rank of Captain in the U.S. Air Force, and he was a NASA scientist. He worked for years at Apple, and most importantly to me, he was a columnist and the voice of reason and humanity at The Mac Observer. He wrote SciFi and a variety of tech columns for several other Mac sites, too.
John was kind, smart, logical, and always reasonable. He was both considerate and considered. Every word that came out of his mouth had a reason to be there and a place to go.
He’s the guy behind the space shuttle landing simulator I played on an Apple II. He also wrote fantastic analysis pieces and interviewed wonderfully interesting people for his podcast back when we worked together at The Mac Observer.
He wrote for many Mac publications. Just his author page at TMO has 83 pages of article summaries.
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Space shuttle simulator? That wouldn't happen to be "Rendezvous"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous:_A_Space_Shuttle_Simulation
Sad news. John was a such a nice guy. He wrote many articles for a little scrappy Mac website that I created and ran ~25 years ago. Always gracious and kind. Now after doing some googling to reminisce, I see that Charles W. Moore passed away in 2018. He was one of my writers too. Great memories.
