A great man, wonderful teacher, and dear friend...

[nikoniko]

A great man, wonderful teacher, and dear friend of the Commodore community from the very beginning, has passed on this weekend.

I regret to advise the Commodore community that Jim Butterfield has
passed away.

Jim died at 1:30 AM on June 29 after battling cancer which infected
many parts of his body.

His family advises that there will not be a funeral as such but a
commemoration of Jim's life is planned in the next month or two.

At the moment that is all the detail that I have to report.

We have all lost a truly wonderful friend and teacher.

Ernie Chorny

[hydrophilic]

Very sad start to the summer festivities (in the US).

I have fond memories of using his Supermon program on the occassions I used 64 mode back in the day.  Not to mention his many articles in various magazines and his ML book for Commodore Computers got me started into serious programming.  A very gifted writer that can (could) explain things simply and with a good sense of humor.

I miss him already.  Rest in peace.

[6502Dude]

I was saddened earlier today to hear that Jim Butterfield had passed away on June 29th.

His contributions to the Commodore community were immense.

Twenty plus years ago, I bought his book Machine Language for the Commodore 64 at a Coles Book store. It was, and still is a great resource.

I had the privilege to meet Jim at a TPUG meeting a couple of years ago.

Although highly respected and admired he was not arrogant or pretentious.

Jim was a pioneer in personal computing well before Vic-20 & the C64 and I was intrigued to learn of how early computer support groups were established.

He was the author of numerous excellent articles that appeared in Kim Notes.

A few weeks ago Jim published a web page based on some speaking notes that he put together for a presentation at York University in Toronto.

http://www.pathcom.com/~fjb/Personal%20Computers.html

I wish I had taken time away from work to attend this.

Although I will miss his good nature and expertise, we should celebrate his life rather than dwell on our loss.

[xlar54]

Yes, this is terrible news.  I posted it in the news message board - Lance, feel free to kill that thread so not to duplicate.

There is solace in knowing that the suffering of his condition has come to an end.  May God bring comfort and peace to his family.  And to Jim, thanks for all that you have given to us over the years.  You will be missed.

[Pinacolada]

Oh gosh. I've got so many of Jim's articles in Compute! magazines, his writing style is instantly recognizable. I'm just starting to read his machine language columns and teach myself ML... fitting somehow... one door closes, one opens: another student picking up the torch and walking with it, as it were.

LDA JIM
STA HEAVEN

[Golan Klinger]

Jim was a great guy and I miss him already.

[airship]

I just ran across this great obit for Jim that ran in the Toronto Globe newspaper(gif scan):

http://pcmuseum.ca/images/jimglobe.gif

Jim wrote a couple of articles for INFO after we took over the Transactor. Of course, I'd known him for years before that. I met Jim when I took a week-long course from him at 'Commodore Computer Camp' in Lincoln, IL. He was just as good a teacher as everyone says he was. And a great guy, too.

My favorite story is when he and Jim Oldfield were both scheduled to talk at a conference, and Butterfield showed up in a t-shirt that read "I am not Jim Oldfield".