Michael Holly has passed away

[NeilB]

This was posted on the Facebook group by Ina Holly. Michael Holly has passed away.

Per Ina Holly: 
Memorial service 6/14 1 pm at Holy Spirit Lutheran Church Kirkland.

I ran into him a few times at the monthly meetups, this was way back when the meetups were still in Redmond. Interesting guy, lots of fun stories from the early days. I still have a reproduction board for my CT-1024 TV Typewriter Michael gave me ages ago, at some point I'll get it built and installed. Another time he had a stack of parallel ASCII keyboards. As I recall he was asking $20 each, I bought several. 

Michael Douglas (deramp.com) created an archive of Michael Holly's website. Lots of interesting SWTPC stuff.

https://deramp.com/swtpc.com/

-Neil

[Andrew Witte]

Sorry to hear that.

Was he the guy that had made that cool embedded computer mimicking 70s designs?

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[J.P. McGlinn]

I think I can picture the person you’re thinking of, maybe, but I’m not sure his name. Are you thinking of the gentleman with the breadboards?

Michael brought in his Southwest Technical Products Corporation (SWTPC) system pretty often and lots of historical information. SWTPC documents, early seattle area computer club (Northwest Computer Society) newsletters he was part of. He also brought in a Windows PC disguised as SWTPC product with a case in all the same design as SWTPC. I don’t remember the entire story, but I think it was for a show exhibit about SWTPC, but needed a modern windows PC for documents or something.

Michael was a treasure and walking history book. Definitely check out the archive of his website below.

-jp

On Apr 28, 2025, at 11:35 AM, Andrew Witte <zezb...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sorry to hear that.

Was he the guy that had made that cool embedded computer mimicking 70s designs?

On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 6:13 AM NeilB <shadowt...@gmail.com> wrote:

This was posted on the Facebook group by Ina Holly. Michael Holly has passed away.

Per Ina Holly: 
Memorial service 6/14 1 pm at Holy Spirit Lutheran Church Kirkland.

I ran into him a few times at the monthly meetups, this was way back when the meetups were still in Redmond. Interesting guy, lots of fun stories from the early days. I still have a reproduction board for my CT-1024 TV Typewriter Michael gave me ages ago, at some point I'll get it built and installed. Another time he had a stack of parallel ASCII keyboards. As I recall he was asking $20 each, I bought several. 

Michael Douglas (deramp.com) created an archive of Michael Holly's website. Lots of interesting SWTPC stuff.

https://deramp.com/swtpc.com/

-Neil

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[Michael Brutman]

I remember Michael as The SWTPC 6800 guy, and for having some great stories about his time in the Navy.  (I think it was his branch of service.)

I regret that I didn't set to see more of him at meetings - the pandemic got in the way of that.

-Mike

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[Glen Slick]

Is there a full obituary online? Seems like he had an interesting history. He mentioned working at Data-I/O years ago. Maybe he also worked at Stobe Data?

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[Clay Erickson]

I am so sorry to learn that Michael had passed away.  I knew he had been struggling with his health for some time.  I understand he had been a member of SRCS and I had the opportunity to meet him and Ina at his home, along with two other SRCS members.  He shared stories with me about his Navy days and his time with SWTPC.  And I got to meet with him once again at our SRCS meeting on March 25th, 2023.  I am grateful and wish Ina and the family the best in this difficult time.  I have no doubt many of us will miss him greatly.

During our visit, I was able to save some hardcopy 6800 code that he had written (mostly printed on silver thermo paper, which I photocopied to normal paper and scanned to minimize handling damage to the originals) along with what appears to be etches for panels and boards for an audio amplifier he worked on, hoping to preserve these for a museum or archive, rather than seeing them lost.

Here are a couple of photos I have of Michael during the visit, and when Michael and Ina visited our March SRCS meeting.

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